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Human Rights – 1997

One of the provisions of the Arusha Accord was to establish a National Human Rights Commission. In November 1997, a presidential decree was given to establish the commission and a law was passed in December of 1997. The commission was not operational and no members were appointed in 1997.¹“Rwanda Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1998,” US State Department, 1999, accessed September 2011, http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1998_hrp_report/rwanda.html…