| With regard to laws, Burundi has ratified CEDAW, CERD, and signed the CRC, the optional protocol of CEDAW, ACHPR, the Rome statute of the ICC, and acceded to ICCPR, ICESCR. However implementation of these instruments is yet to be realized.
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The first Parliament in Ethiopia was put into effect in 1931 in the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie I, who introduced a written constitution for the first time in the long history of Ethiopia. It was from this time that women started being part of the parliament even if all were from the royal family. It was student movement that addressed women’s issues, for the first time in the era of multi partism and thus created a good opportunity for women to fully participate in politics as equals.
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In the recent election, Rwanda has been recognized as the country having the highest proportion of women in parliament in the world. Rwanda's women now occupy 48,8 percent of the seats in parliament. Of the twenty ministerial portfolio’s, women occupy 6 positions.
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Despite the low numbers of women in parliament, their presence has had a modest impact on debates in Tanzania. Women MPs have been able to push for laws that address women’s needs in several areas: Maternity leave, the sexual offence bill on increasing the severity of the punishment of sexual offenders; and the land reform incorporation of a clause that declared unconstitutional customary practices that discriminated against women.
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Hon. Mary Nagu, Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs; and Hon. Sophia Simba, Minister for Gender, Children’s Affairs and Community Development mentioned that the last session of Parliament (which sat on 1st February 2007) had approved the ratification of the AU Protocol on the Rights of Women instrument.
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At a meeting for the Advisory consultative Committee on International Human Rights obligations, the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs shared on the most recent treaties they had ratified and reiterated their commitment to also ratify the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women.
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Akina Mama wa Afrika commissioned a filming company in November 2006 to create a documentary on the Protocol. The documentary seeks to highlight the views of rural and grassroots women on the contents of the Protocol and give them an opportunity to share and deliberate on its contents. The documentary once completed will be used as an advocacy tool to popularize the Protocol in Uganda.
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