CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE _____________________________________________________________________ • Provide universal access to the public media outside electoral campaigns (government, CSOs, political parties). 2 - Actions and measures to enhance the effectiveness of human rights: • Promote human rights and their ownership by Burkina Faso citizens by pursuing and intensifying education on citizenship and human rights in the formal and nonformal education system (CNDH, human rights associations, national education bodies). • Organise regular, mass media information and sensitisation campaigns on human rights, including written and audiovisual media; organise tours of mobile cinemas and theatres; and establish information and documentation centres on human rights (CNDH, private and public media, CSC). • Develop training modules for the defence and security forces, and judges, on respect for and the protection of human rights (CNDH, human rights associations, NGOs, government). • Make judicial rulings on pending cases so as to remove the stigma that taints the court systems. Objective 4: Separate powers, protect the independence of the judiciary and develop an efficient Parliament i. Summary of the CSAR 231. Separation and balance of powers. The constitution of Burkina Faso proclaims the principle of separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers. However, the fact that the drafters of the constitution were inspired by the semi-presidential system set out in the French constitution of the Fifth Republic should not overshadow the breakdown of the balance of powers in favour of the president of Burkina Faso, who has a considerable influence on state power in an environment in which institutional checks and balances are relatively weak. Nevertheless, it can be accepted that a presidential regime is the form of government most suited to young states such as Burkina Faso, where the nation is still under construction or in the process of consolidation. 232. Independence and protection of an efficient Parliament. The constitution of 2 June 1991 stipulates in Article 84 that the National Assembly enacts laws, consents to taxes and controls government actions. The constitution also clearly regulates the relationship between government and the National Assembly. However, such relationship is marked by a profound imbalance that results in an asymmetric relationship between the Executive and Parliament, which generally favours the Executive. 118