United Nations has selected Rwanda as host to the International Conference on the Role of Security Forces in Ending Gender Based Violence (GBV) against Women.
Rwandan women from the agriculture sector will benefit from a United Nations Programme to enhance the participation of women in good governance and access to services.
We ran a story yesterday about the increasing number of rape and defilement cases in Nyagatare District. According to the district's Intermediate Court, on average, 45 out of 50 cases handled by the court, in a month, are related to sexual abuse with most of the victims, children under 14.
The Women's Network for Rural Development has received an international award in recognition of its role in transforming the lives of rural women in Rwanda.
Kigali City has topped the Gender Based Violence (GBV) crime list with 510 cases registered in the first six months of the year. The report indicates that 1,572 cases were registered country wide by the end of June.
The Southern and Eastern Provinces are the second and third with 318 and 313 cases respectively, while the Western and Northern provinces registered the lowest cases, according to the report.
Members of Rwanda Women Parliamentarians Forum (RWPF), who are currently meeting in the Western Province, have acknowledged that poverty among women remains a major challenge.
The lawmakers are meeting evaluate their 2009 activities and part of 2010 and set projections for the coming year.
Rwanda's FDU-Inkingi Party leader, peace and social justice activist Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, spoke to Ann Garrison for Womens' International News Gathering Service (WINGS) in July 2010, near the close of Rwanda's 2010 presidential election year, which was really an election stage play complete with election observers from the U.S. and the U.K. Incumbent Rwandan President Paul Kagame was “re-elected” on Aug.
A seven-person delegation from the West Point military academy in the United States visited the UN office in Kigali, Rwanda on 11 June for a briefing on the reconciliation process in Rwandan society after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic minority, and the role of women in supporting sustainable peace.
Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Thousands of women were also raped. Sixteen years on from the genocide, Tim Whewell finds the horrors of those months have left their mark on a new generation.
Twenty diplomats representing the governing boards of UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Food Programme visited the Rwanda National Police Gender Desk and the ISANGE One Stop Centre for Survivors of Child, Domestic and Gender-Based Violence in Kigali on 24 March.
me visited the Rwanda National Police Gender Desk and the ISANGE One Stop Centre for Survivors of Child, Domestic and Gender-Based Violence in Kigali on 24 March.