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UN Special Advisor Remembers Rwanda by Calling for Action on Darfur

9 Apr 06-   Addressing correspondents at the UN on the twelfth anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide, the UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, Juan Mendez, said that the international community should use the occasion to renew its commitment to ensure it does not let genocide happen again. He said [...]

2020-03-16T21:30:37+00:00April 9th, 2006|Policy & Advocacy|0 Comments

Holocaust survivors praise

31 Mar 06 - Holocaust survivors last week praised ‘Shooting Dogs’, the new BBC feature film set in the Rwandan genocide, after joining the stars to view it at the UK Premiere. (Pictured, left to right: Beatha Uwazaninka, Rwandan genocide survivor; Trude Levi, Auschwitz survivor; Actor John Hurt, star of ‘Shooting Dogs’.) "It was incredibly [...]

2020-03-16T21:30:37+00:00April 7th, 2006|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Hope for Survivors

After the killing stops, the consequence of genocide continues. Widows and orphans in remain disadvantaged eleven years later. We cannot turn back time and give these women and young people back the lives they once had, but we can at least try and restore their dignity.   Aside from the important work to acknowledge and [...]

2020-03-16T21:30:37+00:00April 6th, 2006|Uncategorised|0 Comments

First ever live link between Holocaust survivor, Rwandan genocide survivors and UK-Rwanda pupils

21 Feb 06 A Holocaust survivor and students at the Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire engaged in discussion with students and a Rwandan genocide survivor at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, through a live video-conferencing link. This was the first time that live video-conferencing of this kind has ever been set up between Rwanda and [...]

2020-03-16T21:30:37+00:00February 21st, 2006|Uncategorised|0 Comments

News from Oxford University

It’s been another busy and exciting term for Oxford Aegis Society: We kicked it off with the Hands Up For Darfur Day (03/02/07) at the Oxford Union in conjunction with Hands Up For Darfur. The event included a screening of Shooting Dogs, informational stalls for groups working in Sudan (like Kids for Kids, Medecins Sans [...]

2020-03-16T21:30:37+00:00January 7th, 2006|Students|0 Comments

Digging deep: the British brothers who are building hope in Rwanda

Published in: THE INDEPENDENT, 2 April 2004 Byline: Declan Walsh RAGGED LABOURERS swarm across the Kigali hillside, surging around a white building which looms over the rows of tin-roofed houses. Young men balance metal beams on their shoulders; women carry bundles of bricks. A cacophony of grinding and sawing fills the air. English doctor James [...]

2020-03-16T21:30:38+00:00June 18th, 2004|Memorial|0 Comments

10 Years On – The Story of Rwanda

  Alfred Ndahiro   Contents Introduction The Immediate Aftermath of the 1994 Genocide Acheivements in Post-Genocide Rwanda Peace and security National Unity and Reconciliation Justice Accountability for genocide Prosecutions before ordinary courts Communal justice system (Gacaca) Health and Social affairs Accessibility to health services Education services Democratization Governance reforms Economic governance and reforms Empowering the [...]

2020-03-16T21:30:38+00:00April 2nd, 2004|Uncategorised|0 Comments