(1) Law No. 1/10 of 18 March 2005 promulgating the Constitution of the Republic of Burundi: Articles 30 (3), 44, 45 and 46 of the Basic Law respectively guarantee children’s rights to special measures in order to ensure or improve care for their well-being, health and physical safety and for them to be protected from ill treatment, abuse and exploitation. It also provides for the protection of the child in the event of armed conflict while his detention can only be a last resort. 2) Law No. 1/05 of 22 April 2009 revising the Penal Code includes innovations that further protect the rights of the child, such as the revision of the age of criminal responsibility from 13 to 15 years, the mitigating excuse for children under 18, measures to protect the child from domestic violence, incitement to debauchery, procuring, prostitution, rape, abduction, fraudulent adoption, sale, exploitation, pornography, etc. ; 3) Law No. 1/03 of 3 April 2013 revising the Code of Criminal Procedure, which contains provisions giving priority to the best interests of minors under 18 in conflict with the law; (4) Law No. 1/28 of 29 October 2014 on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and protecting victims of trafficking; 5) Act No. 1/19 of 10 September 2013 on the organisation of basic and secondary education, making free basic school education; 6) Legislative Decree No. 1/024 of 28 April 1993 reforming the Code of Persons and the Family as amended by Law No. 1/004 of 30 April 1999 amending the provisions of the Code of Persons and Family related to adoption. This code strengthens the rights of the child to ensure his/her best development; (7) Legislative Decree No. 1/037 of July 7, 1993 amending the Labour Code of Burundi, defines children who are dependents of a worker (Article 15), prohibits night work for children under 18 ( Article 119), regulates the rest of a child worker (Article 120) and the work of children and youth (Article 126 et seq.); 8) Law No. 1/13 of 22 September 2016 on the prevention, protection of victims and the repression of gender-based violence. 9) It should also be noted that there is a draft Child Protection Code 11. At institutional level, a framework conducive to the respect of the rights of the child has been strengthened. It should be noted in particular: 1) The creation since 2011 of a Department of the Child and the Family within the Ministry of National Solidarity, Human Rights and Gender, currently the Ministry of Human Rights, Social Affairs and Gender; 2) The establishment of the National Independent Commission on Human Rights in 2011, one of whose members comes from child rights associations; 3) The establishment of the National Coordinating Committee on child protection; 4) Establishment of a national unit for the promotion of girls' education in the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Vocational Training and Literacy; 5) The establishment of the Permanent Secretariat for Social Protection in the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Security; (6) The establishment of a national multi sectoral committee for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour; 8