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Creative Industries Bill 2015, which aimed to simulate innovation and simultaneously provide intellectual property protections; and the final bill against human trafficking, which passed in 2016. Nyirahabineza also worked on the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Control Bill 2014 and EAC Climate Change Bill 2015. She urged other lawmakers to recognise that while natural disasters like floods and drought significantly impact ecosystems and economies, solutions to protecting the environment and economy must include gender perspectives. As an example, she said that women predominantly work in farming and hold responsibility for producing, buying, selling and preparing food, but in the region owned "only two per cent of the land". She worked with lawmakers of EALA such as
178:. She pressed for a regional-level Gender Monitoring Office to be established in 2011, and worked to establish uniform election policies across the member states with the introduction of the Elections Bill 2011. The following year, introduced amendments to the Customs Management Act 2004 to establish protocols against transnational human trafficking and organised crime, as well as creating a regional customs body to implement trade policy. She urged other member states of the
89:. According to Nyirahabineza, street children were particularly vulnerable to abuse and violence, poor health because of malnutrition, and infectious disease. She stressed the need for the government and service organisations to work together to alleviate poverty and support foster families to help care for children. When the government signed an agreement in 2004 with the
247:(RNC). Members of these dissident groups undergo civic and vocational training to enable them to reintegrate in civil society. After completion of a two-year rehabilitation program, the former combatants are given a certificate and discharged in hopes that they will become productive citizens and encourage other rebels to return home to Rwanda.
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231:. Regular screenings are carried out to determine which of four categories for assistance an ex-combatant qualifies based on a medically determined disability rating. In addition, Nyirahabineza is responsible for overseeing the
51:(born 1969) is a Rwandan politician and civil servant. Since 2020, she has served as the chairperson of Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission. She served two terms, from 2008 to 2017 in the
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1284:. Kigali, Rwanda: Kigali Today.
1034:. Kigali, Rwanda: Kigali Today.
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