Rwanda

Table of Contents:

• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Assistive Tools and Policies
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Article 29 states:

Mentally disabled persons are not allowed to submit their candidature [for the Chamber of Deputies]...The following disability may be congenital or acquired after approval by a competent doctor recognized by the State...

(1) Physical disability;

(2) Blindness;

(3) Deafness or dumbness...

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Law (2003)

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Article 64 states:

A voter who suffers from disability which prevents him or her from voting in secret is permitted to choose a person who has not yet attained the voting age to assist him or her in voting.

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Law (2003)

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Article 29 states:

Mentally disabled persons are not allowed to submit their candidature [for the Chamber of Deputies]...The following disability may be congenital or acquired after approval by a competent doctor recognized by the State...

(1) Physical disability;

(2) Blindness;

(3) Deafness or dumbness...

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Law (2003)