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2006

Macy's Partners With Rwandan Widows
October 13, 2006 – (AP) When Macy's decided to sell baskets made by Rwandan widows, the store was swayed in part by the prospect of contributing to a developing economy and in part by the women's tale of suffering during their country's 1994 genocide. But Macy's was clear: This may have been charitable, but it was not charity.

Rwanda: Grass Roots Elections the Foundation of Peace
August 29, 2006 - (The New Times) The Governor of Northern Province Boniface Rucagu has described the just-concluded grassroots elections as the foundation of sustainable peace, development, unity and reconciliation in the country. Rucagu made the remarks last week at meeting with chairpersons of the District's electoral commissions in the province held at Fatima Guest House in Musanze District.

In Africa, women are vanguard of progress
August 9, 2006 – (Chicago Tribune) Sweden and Norway once claimed the world's highest percentage of female lawmakers. Now that distinction belongs to an African nation: Rwanda. Women in the tiny, land-locked country still recovering from a 1994 genocide hold 48 percent of the country's legislative seats. A woman heads the Supreme Court and half of the country's judges are women, as are half of its college graduates. That, little by little, is bringing real change.

RWANDA: JUSTICE ELUDES MANY 1994 GENOCIDE SURVIVORS
July 31, 2006 - (IPS) Fear and intimidation have slowed the progress of reconciliatory justice for survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that claimed the lives of over 800,000 people. Four years after traditional courts called "gacaca" (literally "justice on the grass" in the Kinyarwanda language) were set up to try some 63,000 cases by end-2007, judgments have been delivered in only 6,267 cases.

Rwanda's women peacemakers
April 7, 2006 -(Norwegian Church Aid) As the people of Rwanda deal with the aftermath and the legacy that was left by the 1994 genocide, women are playing a key role in reconciling the communities that were affected.

2005

A Survivor of Rwanda's Horrors Writes Hope Into Law
January 25, 2006 – (Washington Post) She was born a Rwandan refugee in Uganda, where her parents herded cattle. A bright and determined student, she went to class under a tree using a borrowed identity, was smuggled across borders to continue her schooling, graduated from Uganda's Makerere University and studied law on a scholarship in Australia.

Rwanda: Survivors Fund calls on international community to do more to prevent use of sexual violence as weapon of war
November 25, 2005 – (Pambazuka News) British-based charity Survivors Fund (SURF), which represents and supports survivors of the Rwandan genocide, called on the international community to do more to prevent the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war to mark today’s UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Rwandan Women's Leadership Spreads To Villages
September 6, 2005 - (WeNews)--Mayor Marie Izabilza sat quietly in the back of the dirt floor concrete room here in an impoverished province on the outskirts of Kigali. Her round face was furrowed in thought. Before her, a dozen young Rwandan war orphans fired off their concerns.

Gender - Related Crimes Still High - Police Report
August 29, 2005 – (The New Times) Cases of rape, defilement, wife battering and murder are still soaring, according to police records between the months of January and June.

UN TRIBUNAL CHIEF WARNS STAFF OVER SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
May 20, 2005 (Hirondelle News Agency) -The Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Friday gave a stern warning to members of his staff to avoid any form of sexual abuse.

Women Target Peace, Security
April 29, 2005 - (The New Times - Kigali) Members of Women Arise Network have concluded a one-week conference at Zion Temple Church to review regional peace and security.

Women's Voices Rise as Rwanda Reinvents Itself
February 26, 2005 - (NYT) The most remarkable thing about Rwanda's Parliament is not the war-damaged building that houses it, with its bullet holes and huge artillery gashes still visible a decade after the end of the fighting.

The Only Woman on Genocide Trial at ITCR to Start Her Defence on Monday
January 28, 2005 - (Hirondelle News Agency - Lausanne) The team defending Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the only woman so far to be indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) begins its case on Monday.

2004

Women and Rwanda’s Genocide: What Goes Unsaid
December 2004 - (WHRnet) Genocide, rape, and HIV infection have condemned these women to certain death. We call them “survivors,” when in fact their deaths are merely delayed.

Rwandan wins human-rights award Genocide prompts social worker to devote her life to helping other women
November 29, 2004 - (Globe and Mail) Tia Goldenberg After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Godelieve Mukasarasi returned to her village from a refugee camp with one goal in mind -- to pick up where she left off months earlier.
The social worker's house was destroyed. Some of her family members were killed. But her objective was to help others in her situation.

Rwanda: Women Ex-Combatants Seek Inclusion in Peacekeeping Missions
November 18, 2004 - (IRIN) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away, as the saying goes. Yet for Capt Apophia Batamuliza, a retired former Rwandan woman soldier, that is not an option. Batamuliza was only 24 in 1990, when she joined a group of men to launch a four-year guerrilla war to oust a regime that had denied them a right to stay in their home country.

Rwanda: Rape Survivors Find No Justice
September 30, 2004 – (HRW) Tens of thousands of Rwandan women were raped during the genocide and in the decade since, but only a few perpetrators of sexual violence have been prosecuted, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

RWANDAN FEMALE EX-COMBATANTS CAN PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN PEACEKEEPING
September 1, 2004 - (UNIFEM) Women ex-combatants from Rwanda have asked for a role in regional peacekeeping missions in Africa. Pointing specifically to the recent Rwandan government's commitment to support regional peacekeeping missions by sending soldiers to help protect African Union cease-fire monitors, they are urging that ex-combatant women be included in such missions, because of their experience of warfare and its particular impact on women, and their interest in assisting women caught in conflict.

WITNESSES ALLEGE MUHIMANA DID NOT RAPE
August 17, 2004 - (Hirondelle News Agency) Defence witnesses in the trial involving the former counsellor of Gishyita sector (Gishyita commune, Kibuye province), Mika Muhimana, on Tuesday told the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that they did not witness Muhimana raping girls or women.

TRIBUTES PAID TO RWANDA SURVIVORS
July 16, 2004 - (BBC) Hundreds of women gathered in London's Trafalgar Square on Friday to honour the survivors of the Rwandan genocide.

RWANDAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST WINS 2004 JOHN HUMPHREY FREEDOM AWARD: AN UNTIRING SOURCE OF HOPE AND JUSTICE FOR SURVIVORS OF THE 1994 GENOCIDE
July 8, 2004 - (Rights and Democracy Communique) Rwandan human rights activist Godeliève Mukasarasi is the winner of the 2004 John Humphrey Freedom Award, Rights & Democracy announced today.

RWANDAN GENOCIDE WIDOWS TO END MOURNING PERIOD SATURDAY
June 30, 2004 - (Hirondelle News Agency) The Rwandan genocide widows association (AVEGA-Agahozo) will on Saturday close this year's mourning period in memory of the victims of the genocide.

WOMEN BREAK INTO AFRICAN POLITICS
May 10, 2004 – (afrol News) Women in Rwanda now top the world rankings of women in national parliaments, with 49 percent of representation compared to a world average of 15.1 percent. This success mirrors the trend of a small, but growing number of sub-Saharan countries, where women are breaking into politics.

"MARKED FOR DEATH": RAPE SURVIVORS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN RWANDA
May 6, 2004 – (Amnesty International) Between April and June of 1994, Rwandans suffered 100 days of violence and genocide that targeted ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the country. Ten years later, victims of that 100 days of violence still suffer. Responses by the Rwandan government and by the international community have been inadequate. This is especially true for those in the need of medical care and those still seeking justice. Bringing to justice those responsible has been an enormous challenge and progress has been slow. For women who were raped and tortured, or whose family members were killed, justice and redress remain elusive.

DON'T ABANDON RWANDAN WOMEN AGAIN
April 10, 2004 – (NYT Op-Ed) At commemorations held in Rwanda and around the world this week for the 800,000 people who were murdered in the Rwandan genocide 10 years ago, politicians and other leaders said "never again." Those words, while well-intentioned, have a hollowness to them: people are still dying of the genocide in Rwanda and the world is still failing them.

RWANDA BUCKS BLIND OBEDIENCE
April 9, 2004 – (Christian Monitor) For a decade, genocide survivors have been reluctant to finger perpetrators; that's slowly changing.

HIV/AIDS PROJECT REGISTERS HIGH ACCEPTANCE RATE - UNICEF
April 8, 2004 – (IRIN) A pilot project in Rwanda on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV infection has registered a high rate of acceptance and has helped improve the chances of HIV positive mothers giving birth to HIV negative children, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday.

"MARKED FOR DEATH": RAPE SURVIVORS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN RWANDA
April 7, 2004 – (Amnesty International) Survivors of violence still cry out for medical care; survivors and families of victims clamour for justice that is slow in coming. Women continue to die from diseases related to HIV/AIDS, which some of them contracted as a result of rape during the 1994 genocide and armed conflict. It is in this context, ten years after the start of the Rwandan genocide and war and as part of its Stop Violence Against Women campaign, that Amnesty International is making an appeal to the Rwandan government and international community to expand access to healthcare and justice for survivors of rape and their families.

RWANDA: LEGACY OF 1994 GENOCIDE AND WAR YET TO BE ADDRESSED
April 6, 2004 – (Amnesty International Press Release) Ten years on from the start of the genocide in Rwanda, genocide, war and HIV/AIDS have contributed to a generation of orphaned children living in destitution and vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, said Amnesty International today.

GENOCIDE VICTIMS' AIDS DRUG CALL
April 6, 2004 – (BBC) Groups representing survivors of the Rwandan genocide have urged the developed world to provide free drugs for thousands of women with HIV/Aids.

CHARITY SAYS 8,000 RWANDA RAPE SURVIVORS NEED AIDS DRUGS
April 6, 2004 – (AlertNet) – For three days, Hitayezu was raped by Hutu militiamen -- soldier after soldier, hour after hour, until someone took pity and hid her in a kitchen.

WOMEN SURVIVORS OF THE RWANADAN GENOCIDE FACE GRIM REALITIES
April 6, 2004 – (IPS) - Mamerthe Karuhimbi was 19 when the killers came to her home in the Rwandan town of Nyamata, a decade ago. On 6 Apr. 1994, a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and his Burundian counterpart, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was shot down over the Rwandan capital - Kigali. Shortly after that, a wave of violence spilled over the tiny central African country as officials and hardline members of the Hutu majority embarked on a killing spree that targeted minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

A SEAT IN THE GRASS
April 1, 2004 – (Pambazuka Newsletter #154) The mountains are beguiling. Volcanic and tropical, they teem with life: bearded colobus, a hundred kinds of butterflies and twice as many tree species all in a space scarcely larger than Wales. Banana groves slide off the slopes into valleys deeply rutted by brick cutters and potato mounds. As the hills slip by it is tempting to forget the secrets they hold. But in Rwanda, forgetting is impossible.

ANOTHER TESTIMONY OF RAPE BROUGHT AGAINST FORMER COUNCILLOR
April 1, 2004 – (Hirondelle News Agency – Lausanne) Another prosecution witness on Thursday accused the former councillor of Gishyita sector (Gishita commune, Kibuye province) Mikaeli Muhimana of raping a woman in 1994, and then ordering that she be killed.

WITNESS SAYS MUHIMANA RAPED HER
March 31, 2003 – (Hirondelle News Agency - Lausanne) A witness on Wednesday told the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that the former councillor of Gishyita sector (Gishita commune, Kibuye province) Mikaeli Muhimana, alias Mika, had raped her several times in his office during the 1994 genocide.

RWANDANS ARE STRUGGLING TO LOVE CHILDREN OF HATE
March 28, 2004 - (Washington Post) Hands covering her eyes, her thin legs crossed to try to stop what she could not, Eugenia Muhayimana screamed out to God as the baby pushed through her birth canal. She said she yelled and kicked during two hours of labor, hoping her heart would stop, her soul would drift away and she and her infant would pass to a world where they could live in peace.

U.N. COURT SENTENCES RWANDAN EX-MINISTER TO LIFE IN PRISON
January 23, 2004 – (UN Wire) The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has handed down two life sentences to former Education and Culture Minister Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda for the crimes of genocide and extermination, committed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, which claimed 800,000 lives. On eight other counts of complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity for murder, rape, and other inhuman acts and serious violations of the Geneva Conventions, Kamuhanda was found either not guilty or the charges were dropped.

FOCUS ON HELPING FORMER CHILD SOLDIERS (INCLUDES SECTION ON FORMER GIRL CHILD SOLDIERS)
January 22, 2004 - (IRIN) Despite the scorching sun, a cool breeze from the nearby volcanic mountains enables the former child soldiers to play football in the open space outside the Mutobo Transit Camp. For their part, the adult former combatants are attending a lecture in a rudimentary iron-roofed building nearby.


2003

JUDGE RECEIVES PRIZE FOR DEFENDING WOMEN'S RIGHTS
December 12, 2003 – (Hirondelle News Agency - Lausanne) The former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Judge Navanethem Pillay of South Africa, Wednesday received in New York the Women's Rights prize form the Peter Gruber Foundation.

COUNTRY GETS FIRST FEMALE CHIEF JUSTICE
December 10, 2003 – (The Monitor - Kampala) Rwanda's senate has elected Ms Aloysia Cyanzaire as Rwanda's first female chief justice.

UN AGENCY LAUDS WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN GOVERNMENT
November 18, 2003 – (IRIN) With almost half the parliamentarians in Rwanda women, the country is a world leader in gender balance in political representation and decision-making, a senior UN official there said on Monday.

RWANDA'S WOMEN LEGISLATORS, NEARLY MATCHING MEN IN NUMBERS, LEAD THE WORLD
November 17, 2003 – (UNDP) There are nearly as many women as men in Rwanda's two legislative chambers, making the central African country a world leader in gender balance in political representation and decision making.

WOMEN TAKE LEAD IN RECONSTRUCTION OF RWANDA
November 16, 2003 – (WeNews) Women in Rwanda have taken a leading role in helping their country recover after a genocidal extremist rampage ten years ago. Experts say their accomplishments provide an example to war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq.

WOMEN TAKE NEARLY HALF OF RWANDAN STATE SEATS
October 23 2003 - (AP) Rwanda's historic elections sent the world's highest share of women to parliament, knocking long-time champion Sweden from the top spot, the Inter-Parliamentary Union said on Wednesday. Rwanda's women now occupy 48,8 percent of the seats.

RWANDA MOVES TO TOP WOMEN MP LIST
October 22, 2003 – (BBC) Following elections earlier this month, 48.8% of Rwanda's MPs are women, says the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

RIGHTS BODY URGES KIGALI TO HELP CURB RIGHTS ABUSES IN EASTERN CONGO
October 15, 2003 - (IRIN) Human rights NGO Amnesty International has called upon the Rwandan government to use its influence on armed elements operating in neighbouring eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to help curb human rights abuses throughout the region.

FOCUS ON GENOCIDE WIDOWS DYING OF HIV/AIDS
October 8, 2003 - (IRIN) Mediatrice Ilibagiza, 38, is a widow and mother of three who, like thousands other Rwandan women, lost her husband during Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

MARRIAGE BY ABDUCTION WORRIES WOMEN'S GROUPS
October 7, 2003 - (IPS) Judith Kanzayire, a 29-year-old mother of three children from northern Rwanda, admits that she was the victim of 'marriage by abduction'. ”What can you do? It's the tradition here. We have no choice but to accept it,” she says.

RWANDAN PRESIDENT'S PARTY IS VICTORIOUS
October 1, 2003 – (AP) The ruling party of President Paul Kagame won nearly three-fourths of the vote in Rwanda's first multiparty legislative elections since independence from Belgium in 1962, election officials said Wednesday.

RWANDANS VOTE IN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS
September 29, 2003 - (AP) Young Rwandans and representatives of the handicapped began casting ballots Monday at the start of three days of voting in the nation's first genuine multiparty legislative elections since independence from Belgium in 1962.

NDINDABAHIZI ORDERED THE KILLING OF TUTSI WOMEN MARRIED TO HUTUS
September 15, 2003 – (Hirondelle News Agency - Lausanne) The tenth prosecution witness testifying at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda against genocide suspect and former Rwandan Minister of Finance Emmanuel Ndindabahizi, on Monday said that the accused had ordered Hutus to kill Tutsi women married to Hutu men during the 1994 genocide.

RWANDAN WOMEN’S CONFEDERATION WIN WOMEN’S RIGHTS PRIZE FOR COURAGEOUS EFFORTS TO HELP RWANDAN WOMEN
September 2, 2003 - (Peter Gruber Foundation) A South African judge noted for her leadership of the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and an umbrella organization of Rwandan grassroots women's groups have been chosen the joint recipients of the inaugural Women's Rights Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.

KENYAN AND RWANDAN WOMEN LEARN POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT SKILLS
August 28, 2003 – (United States Department of State) "A woman's way of leading is different from that of men, it is much more inclusive, much more dependent on collaborating and networking," one of a small number of women members of parliament in Kenya, told the Washington File. Esther Keino, a graduate of Harvard University, was one of eight women leaders from Kenya and Rwanda who gathered on Maryland's Eastern Shore recently to learn key political leadership skills as well as how to train and empower other African women to use those skills when they return home.

RWANDA WOMEN KEY TO RECONSTRUCTION
June 20, 2003 - (AFROL) A three day seminar in Kigali aims at reinforcing the role of Rwandan women in the reconstruction and economic development of the country. New data show that, while women clearly make up the population majority in Rwanda, they remain underrepresented in decision-making processes.

UPCOMING SECURITY COUNCIL MISSIONS TO AFRICA: WILL THERE BE A GENDER PERSPECTIVE?
May 30, 2003 – (PeaceWomen) In June, the Security Council members will travel to Central and West Africa in order to witness the current armed conflict and post-conflict situations in countries in the respective regions. On June 7, the Council members- led by the French- will depart for the Great Lakes region, where they will spend a week visiting six countries, including Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. Later in the month, on June 28, the British will lead a Council mission to West Africa, where the Council members will spend six days visiting Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

RIGHTS GROUPS ACCUSE U.N. OF LAX PROSECUTION OF 1994 RWANDA RAPES
March 13, 2003 – (UN Wire) A coalition of human rights groups on Tuesday accused the United Nations of making little effort to prosecute rapes alongside other crimes committed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Rights and Democracy, the coordinating institution of the Coalition on Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations issued a news release on March 10th. To read this news release click here.

RWANDAN RAPE VICTIMS DENIED JUSTICE BY U.N. TRIBUNAL: PRESS CONFERENCE
March 10, 2003 – (Rights and Democracy-News Release) Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is denying rape victims justice. The record of the prosecutor shows no commitment to develop evidence and bring charges despite the overwhelming proof of sexual violence during the 1994 genocide, announced the Coalition on Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations, following their annual meeting in Montreal.

A WOMAN ON TRIAL FOR RWANDA'S MASSACRE
March 7, 2003 – (Christian Science Monitor) With her hair pulled neatly back, her heavy glasses beside her on the table, she looks more like someone's dear greataunt than what she is alleged to be: a high-level organizer of Rwanda's 1994 genocide who authorized the rape and murder of countless men and women. Wearing a green flowery dress one day, a pressed cream-colored skirt and blouse set the next, the defendant listens stoically to the litany of accusations against her.

FORMER RWANDAN MINISTER FOR FAMILY AND WOMEN AFFAIRS ORDERED SOLDIERS TO RAPE TUTSIS, SAYS PROSECUTION WITNESS
March 3, 2003 – (Hirondelle News Agency – Lausanne) Arusha, March 3rd, 2003 (FH) - The former Rwandan Minister for Family and Women Affairs, Pauline Nyiramasuhusuko, one of the six accused in the so-called Butare tial, ordered Interahamwe militiamen and soldiers to rape young Tutsi girls and women during the massacres of April-July, 1994, a witness testified on Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

RECONCILIATION IS THE BASIS OF RWANDAN GACACA JUSTICE
February 8, 2003 – (Rocky Mountain News, Op-Ed) It was April, the heart of the rainy season, when the Rwandan massacres began. In just three months, starting with the ferocious downpour, some 800,000 Rwandans (of a population of 8 million) were slaughtered.

2002

3,000 RWANDAN WOMEN AWAIT TRIALS FOR GENOCIDE
December 20, 2002 – (WEnews) Some 3,000 women are accused of participating in the Rwandan genocide that killed up to 1 million members of the country‚s ethnic minority. Meanwhile, survivors worry about what will happen when some of the accused are returned to the nation's villages.

HOW RWANDA'S GENOCIDE LINGERS ON FOR WOMEN
November 27, 2002 - (Christian Science Monitor) A handful of programs are assisting women who were raped and infected with AIDS, but thousands more go without help.

WOMEN LEAD THE WAY TO RWANDA'S FUTURE
November 21, 2002 – (International Herald Tribune) Rwandans say that women bore the brunt of the genocide - they lost husbands and children, survived rape and torture - and yet they were the ones who picked up the pieces of a literally decimated society.

RWANDAN EX-MINISTER ORDERED MILITIAS TO INSERT WOOD INTO GENITALS OF A WOMAN, SAYS WITNESS
October 15, 2002 – (Hirondelle News Agency - Lausanne) Genocide suspect and former Rwandan minister of Information, Eliézer Niyitegeka, instructed militias to insert a branch of wood into the genitals of a dead ethnic Tutsi woman during the 1994 genocide, the last prosecution witness told the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday.

'EX-FAMILY MINISTER ORDERED RAPE OF TUTSI WOMEN," WITNESS CLAIMS
October 14, 2002 – (Internews - Arusha) Genocide suspect Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, former minister for family and women's affairs, ordered 'Interahamwe' to rape ethnic Tutsi women before they were killed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, a prosecution witness today claimed before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

MISPLACED BLAME; WITH MANY MEN BEHIND THE RWANDA ATROCITIES, WHY DOES THE MEDIA SINGLE OUT A WOMAN AS A UNIQUE MONSTER?
September 28, 2002 –(The Hamilton Spectator Magazine) Hundreds of wars: Peru, Colombia, Liberia, Congo, East Timor, Chechnya, Bosnia, Algeria, to cite only a handful. Millions of girls and women raped in the course of war -- a sick, bloody tide of ruined lives and butchered bodies. The butchers, the mutilators, the rapists and the commanders who ordered the rapes as acts of war, must number in the tens of thousands.

2001

A PEARL IN THE HORROR OF GENOCIDE
December 5, 2001 – (Guardian) Olive Uwera did not survive Rwanda's 1994 genocide. The young Tutsi woman is still alive, almost eight years on, but her daughter is a constant reminder of the interahamwe Hutu militiamen who gang-raped her, butchered her father and destroyed her mother's mind. One of the rapists fathered the child; another condemned Olive to a lingering death from Aids.

RWANDA MARKS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
March 30, 2001 - (RGN) Rwanda marked International Women’s Day on Thursday with national celebrations being officiated over by the President of the Republic of Rwanda, H.E. Paul Kagame at Ruhengeri town.

WOMEN LEAD IN EFFORT TO REBUILD RWANDA
February 15, 2001 – (CSM) Before she was 30, she grappled with how to care for the nearly 500,000 orphans left behind by Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Now, she spends her days visiting villages to help them prepare for the release of 80,000 prisoners who allegedly participated in the killings, but have been jailed for years without trial because there aren't enough courts to try them. Their cases will be dealt with now through a community justice system called gacaca.

2000

FROM RWANDA'S ASHES, WOMEN ARE BUILDING ANEW
October 2, 2000 – (Wenews) For six years, Aloisea Inyumba has managed the aftermath of the genocide in Central Africa that the world still can barely comprehend. She arranged burials and funerals and commemorations; she assisted in providing relief to survivors; she helped returning refugees. Perhaps most important, she encouraged Tutsi and Hutu women to start talking to each other and working toward a common goal of peace. It's only a beginning, but the seeds have been planted.

1999

EYEWITNESS: RWANDA’S SURVIVORS
March 18, 1999 - (BBC - RWANDA) I meet Esperance as she is waiting for her turn to collect a yellow jerrycan and a blanket from local officials who are organising an emergency distribution from the steps of the mayor's office in the commune of Cyeru.

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