1. DESCRIPTION OF THE COUTRY Burundi is an East African country with no access to the sea and a land mass of 27,834 km2. To the North is Rwanda, to the South and East, Tanzania; in the West, the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country is subdivided into 18 provinces,1 119 municipalities and 2,908 hills including 97 districts of the Bujumbura City Council. The national language is Kirundi. The official language most used in the administration is French. Other languages such as English and Kiswahili are learned at school and spoken by part of the population. The recent general population and housing census of 2008 found that the population of Burundi was 8,038,618 inhabitants of which 51.15% are women. The Burundian population is very young: young people and children exceed 60%. The population density is 391.2 inhabitants / km22 with an annual population growth rate of 3.7%. Bujumbura, the capital, is the most populated city in the country.3 II. GENERAL MEASURES OF APPLICATION 9. By virtue of Article 19 of Law No. 1/010 of 18 March 2005 on the Constitution of the Republic of Burundi, the rights and duties proclaimed and guaranteed by the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children are integral part of the written Burundian law. 10. In accordance with the Charter, the Government of Burundi has put in place a legal framework aimed at strengthening the protection and promotion of the rights of the child. These include: 1 the Until 24 March 2015, Burundi had17 provinces, the 18 was created by Law n° 1/10 du 26 mars 2015 on the creation of the creation Rumonge province and the delimitation of the provinces of Bujumbura, Bururi and Rumonge. 2 http://www. Statistiques mondiales. Com /burundi.htm 3 According to the 2008 general census of population and housing, the city of Bujumbura accounted for 476,822 7