175. The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC), National Human Rights Commission, National Prosecution Service, Rwanda National Police, the Ombudsman Office, Civil Society including NGOs for Human Rights regularly organise various training and sensitisation programs designed for public and administrative leaders related to awareness raising of the ACHPR. 176. Equally, Faculties of Law in different Rwanda Universities have made human rights as one of their compulsory and important courses. This has allowed students to enhance their knowledge in human rights and understand the African human rights system. The Institute of Legal Practice and Development and the National Commission for Human Rights facilitated in different trainings to different stakeholders in relation to international treaties relating to human rights. The Institute for legal Practice and Development periodically conducts capacity building for judges and other judicial officers. In 2013 Judges were trained on the application of international human rights law in national courts. In the same year, the National Commission for Human Rights also trained 40 judges of primary and intermediate courts. 177. The Institute of Legal Practice and Development also enhances the capacities of all public judicial officers (judges, prosecutors and all other officials in the areas of justice administration) without exemption of private practitioners (lawyers and advocates. One of the main objectives of the institute is to strengthen the justice sector by not only enhancing the capacity of judicial personnel but also increasing and inspiring legal practitioners to use international law – ACHPR included. The ILPD contributes to this objective through practical legal training offered to practitioners from different stakeholders of the entire justice sector. Article 26: Independence of the courts 178. The Constitution of Rwanda of 2003 revised in 2015, guarantees the independence of the judiciary. Article 150 enshrines institutional independence as follows: The Judiciary is independent and exercises financial and administrative autonomy. Article 151(5), on the other hand, guarantees personal independence. It requires impartiality on the part of judges and deals with their security of tenure and their terms and conditions Page 62 of 105

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