against Genocide, and community conciliators, (Abunzi), in which over 30% of the members are women. Women have also played a pivotal role in home –grown peace building initiatives such as solidarity camps (Ingando) and “Itorero” that expose women to civic education and peace building from grassroots to national level and allows women to have a say in the sustainable peace and a culture of cohesion in the country. Article 12: Right to Education and Training 68. Equal right to education is guaranteed by the Constitution (2003) revised in 2015 whose Article 20 stipulates that “Every Rwandan has the right to education. Freedom of learning and teaching shall be guaranteed in accordance with conditions determined by law. Primary education is compulsory. It is free in public schools. This constitutional requirement has broken the traditional barrier of viewing girls’ education as not important as that of boys. It has also served as a foundation for the Government to invest a lot in improving access to education for all, but with particular attention to reducing the gap in access between girls and boys, women and men and ensuring high education quality. Article 12: Right to Education and Training 69. There is a Ministerial Order No 001/2016 of 08/01/2016 providing sanctions against parents who do not send their children to school and against other persons who employ children in work preventing them from going to or encouraging them to drop out of school. Article 2 of the law provides that: A parent or guardian who does not send his/her child to school while the child has reached the required age to start primary school, shall be sanctioned by a reprimand in a meeting of the Village in which he/she resides and be ordered to send the child to school. There are also Sanctions against employers of children and other various people. Among the policies, there is an integrated early childhood development strategic plan 2011/12 – 2015/16. 70. The Girls ‘education policy was developed in 2008 to guide Government efforts in reducing gender disparities in education. The implementation of this policy combined with other Government Page 87 of 105