Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL (includes LC Portals: Rwanda)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW RESOURCE

• International Constitutional Law: Rwanda Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the 1991 constitution plus background notes, 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 GOVERNMENT BRANCH

• President
• Prime Minister

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• 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 Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND REGIONAL SPECIFIC LAWS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Rwanda (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• ForIntLaw: Rwanda (Washburn University Law Library)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (United Nations)
• JURIST: Rwanda (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (Jane Williams, via GlobaLex) June 2006
• World Law Index: Rwanda (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Africa: Rwanda (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL

• Portals to the World: Rwanda ()
• Background Notes: 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
• Governments on the WWW: Rwanda (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Rwanda (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual 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)
• World Factbook: Rwanda (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Rwanda (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Rwanda (Google); Rwanda (Stanford University); Rwanda (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Rwanda (Columbia University)