10 (farming with hoes, and status livestock-raising). Agriculture is prone to the vagaries of the weather which are not very favourable to production. II. Human Rights Normative and Institutional Framework 2.1. Government mechanism for Human Rights Promotion and Protection Up to the 1990s there was no Public Institution to deal specifically with human rights issues. In April 1992 a Human Rights Centre was created for the first time in Burundi, and placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice and Guardian of the Seals. Later, this Centre became the Centre for the Promotion of the Rights of the Individual and for the Prevention of Genocide (CPDPHPG), and was to be placed under the supervision of the Ministry responsible for Human Rights. Following the June 1993 elections, a Ministry for Social Affairs, Human Rights and Women’s Affairs was created in July 1993 and a woman was placed at the head of this Ministry (Decree n° 1/100/2002 of 10 July 1993). Since then a Ministry responsible for Human Rights Issues has figured among the Ministerial Departments from 1993 to date. The Ministry responsible for Human Rights Issues is responsible, among other things, for: - Developing Government policy in human rights issues and of contributing to its implementation; - Promoting and defending Human Rights in collaboration with the other Ministries and Public and Private Organizations concerned; - Coordinating Human Rights related activities; - Developing and promoting a programme for peace, human rights education, for tolerance and democratic values in collaboration with other national and international partners; - Developing and implementing a programme for the prevention of genocide and the eradication of the ideology of genocide in collaboration with the other national and international partners. A Government Human Rights Commission which, although not in conformity with the Paris Principles, was created in 2000 by Order n° 120/VP1/002/2000 of 11 May 2000 and is on the point of becoming the National Independent Human Rights Commission. Currently the draft law on the