241. The Applicants further pray the Court to order the Respondent State to amend its criminal law to introduce general criminal liability for legal persons. 242. The Applicants pray the Court to order the Respondent State to organise training programmes for relevant civil servants in order to raise their awareness of human rights and environmental protection issues. Finally, they pray that the Respondent State include awareness of respect for human rights and the environment in school and university curricula. * 243. The Respondent State did not submit on this point. *** 244. The Court recalls that guarantees of non-repetition aim to ensure that no further violations occur. As a form of reparation, they serve to prevent future violations, stop ongoing violations and reassure victims of past violations that the harm they suffered will not reoccur. The objective of guarantees of non-repetition is to eliminate the structural causes of violence in society, which are often conducive to an environment in which dehumanising practices such as torture and other ill-treatment take place and are not publicly condemned or adequately punished.81 245. In the present case, the Court orders the Respondent State to implement legislative and regulatory reforms prohibiting the import and dumping of hazardous waste in its territory in line with its obligations under the Bamako Convention and other applicable instruments. 81 African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights - General Comment No. 4 on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The Right to Reparation for Victims of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Article 5), § 45. 59

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