Rwanda
Rwandese Republic / Republika y'u Rwanda
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- International Constitutional Law: Rwanda Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the 1991 constitution plus Background Note, a key number system to locate parts, and links to comparative information; not yet included are the 1995 constitution and the 1993 Arusha Peace Accord.
Executive
- President
- Prime Minister
- Government
Judicial
- Constitutional Court, consists of the Court of Cassation and the Council of State
Legislative
- OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Journal officiel de la Republique rwandaise
- PARLIAMENT: Assemblee Nationale de Transition
- NATLEX: Rwanda (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Rwanda (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Global Legal Monitor: Rwanda (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- ForIntLaw: Rwanda (Washburn University Law Library)
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (United Nations)
- Rwanda's Legal System and Legal Materials (Eunice Musiime via GlobaLex)
- Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (Jane Williams via GlobaLex)
- World Legal Information Institute: Rwanda (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Africa: Rwanda (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Background Note: Rwanda (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Rwanda (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Rwanda (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Rwanda (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Rwanda (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Embassy of Rwanda, Washington
- Human Rights in Rwanda (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Rwanda (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Bibliotheque Nationale du Rwanda - information (IFLA)
- NEWS: BBC World Africa
- U.S. Embassy, Kigali (U.S. Dept. of State)
- UCB Libraries GovPubs: Rwanda (University of Colorado Boulder)
- World Factbook: Rwanda (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Hunger: Rwanda (World Food Programme)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Rwanda (Stanford University); Rwanda (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Rwanda (Columbia University)
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Last Updated: 01/29/2012
