Natural Resources Authority (RNRA) and determining its mission,
organization and functioning, Ministerial Order relating to the requirements
and procedure for Environmental Impact Assessment, Ministerial Order
establishing modalities of inspecting companies or activities that pollute the
environment, Ministerial Order determining the length of land on shores of
lakes and rivers transferred to public property, Ministerial Order regulating
the importation and exportation of ozone layer depleting substances
products and equipment containing such substances, Ministerial Order
establishing the list of protected animal and plant species, Ministerial Order
preventing activities that pollute the atmosphere, Ministerial Order
determining the list of chemicals and other prohibited pollutant and
Ministerial Order on the establishment of the National Man and Biosphere
Committee.
173.
While interventions in protecting environment in 2010/11 were
commendable, it is important to note that only major ones are found
hereafter. They range from forestry resource management, pollution control
management, reducing exposure to climate change effects, ecosystem
rehabilitation, and ownership environment and mainstreaming, to water
resource management.
PART V. INFORMATION CONCERNING SPECIFIC DUTIES UNDER
THE CHARTER
Article 25-Duty to promote awareness of the Charter
174. The Ministry of Justice through its access to justice bureau operating within
all districts plays a crucial role in raising awareness on general laws and
International treaties ratified by Rwanda – in particular - the African Charter
because of its specificity to various African values which Rwanda attaches
great importance. The Supreme Court and other courts have been
encouraged through workshops and trainings to make extensive use of the
African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights especially that the Rwandan
constitution of 2003 revised in 2015 ranks international human rights
instruments in the third position of hierarchy of laws. The charter thus is
part of the domestic law.
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