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Amahoro
Foundation Amahoro
means "Peace" Established to assist war-affected children in Rwanda and
its neighbouring countries. In particular, the Amahoro Foundation works
to help orphans, advance education, and relieve poverty. www.amahoro.nl
AVEGA
(link not working) Association des veuves du génocide Agahozo
/ Association of Genocide Widows. Founded in January 1995, this organization
of 25,000 genocide widows, which runs the Agahozo Center (Agahozo: "the
place where tears are dried.") Rape was a dliberate part of the 1994 genocide.
Many survivors say they were raped in order to infect them, making the
AIDS virus a slow-acting weapon of genocide. www.avega.org.rw
Barakabaho
Foundation The Rwanda Development Trust The Barakabaho
Foundation, based in Rwanda, runs a sponsorship programme for child headed
households. The Rwanda Development Trust based in Kent in England, serves
as an intermediary for the Barakabaho Foundation.
Benimpuhwe ("From
the Heart" in Kinyarwanda), is an association of women working to rebuild
their lives and their country. BENIMPUHWE, a partner organization in Rwanda
of the international women's organizatin MADRE
,is constructing a new village on the scorched earth of the genocide and
built 180 houses, for mostly women-headed families made homeless by massacres
of 1994.
CLADHO
Collectif des Ligues et Associations des Droits de l'Homme. A collective
of human rights organizations.
Duterimbere ("Advancing
Forward -- Women who work together for a better future" in the Kinyarwanda
language.) Duterimbere gives individuals and women's cooperatives workingcapital
loans of around US $150. Investing money in activities that use their
skills, such as craftwork, sewing and baking, the women repay the loans
at a low rate of interest over a period of 12 months.
Ibuka
(Remember), the main Rwandan genocide survivors organization
International
conference of genocide survivors in Rwanda November 2001 - An international
conference of genocide and holocaust survivors was opened in the Rwandan
capital Kigali under the theme "Rebuilding the lives of Genocide survivors"
Itangazo
Ryamamaza Hose Agaciro K'Umunu (UDHR,
Paris, 1948)
Itsembabwoko
Amasezerano 1948. (article 2, 3 )
Geekcorps
in the suppor tof te Gacaca Trials Geekcorps,
the "Peace Corps for Geeks"has partnered with the Kigali, Rwanda
firm Alphasoft. In
2001 Geekcorps ("technology vlunteeers enabling communities worldwide")
joined with International
Executive Service Corps (IESC, est. 1964) volunteer business experts
working in developing regions.
Healing
through Connection and Understanding Project www.heal-reconcile-rwanda.org
see
also the associated new project Psychology
of Peace and the Prevention of Violence (est. 2004,
UMass-Amherst)
Kigali
Public Library Project A Project of the Rotary Club of
Kigali-Virunga Turning Tools of Destruction into Tools of Knowledge
Mahakama
ya Kimataifa ya Watuhumiwa wa Mauaji ya Halaiki ya Rwanda (ICTR-Arusha)
rukiko mpuzamahanga rwashyiriweho u Rwanda
http://www.umuseso.com/
Never
Again (est 2002) an international student network founded by students
from Canada, Rwanda, the UK and the US at the Institute
for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution's 2001 Hague Symposium
Nyamata
Memorial Project
Aegis Trust
Office
Rwandais d'Information (Rwandan National Information Office) Government
website, inclusing Radio Rwadna http://www.orinfor.gov.rw/
Remember
Rwanda Rwanda 10th Anniversary Memorial Project (est. 2001, Toronto,
Canada) http://www.visiontv.ca/RememberRwanda
Women
for Women International (Wash.D.C., USA) Projects
include work with genocide survivors in Rwanda www.womenforwomen.org
Web
site y'Urukiko Nshinjabyaha Mpuzamahanga rwagenewe u Rwanda (TPIR/ICTR-
Arusha) Urukiko Mpuzamahanga rwashyizweho n'Inama ishinzwe amahoro ku
isi mu cyemezo cyayo 955 ku itariki 8 Ugushyingo 1994, kugirango ruce
imanza z'abantu bacyekwaho kuba barakoreye mu Rwanda ibyaha by'itsembabwoko.
Umubano
(co-operation) Rwandan Community Organisation in the United Kingdom
established in September 1998 to respond to problems that Rwandan refugees
and asylum seekers, including housing, education, legal protection, trauma,
and others. www.refugeesonline.org.uk/umubano
Research on the Rwandan Genocide:
Rwanda
Genocide Archive www.genocide94. a project of the Amahoro
Foundation www.amahoro.nl
Rwanda
Genocide Project
of the Genocide
Studies Program - Yale University (est.
1998, New Haven) www.yale.edu/gsp
Website
includes databases of Victims and Perpetrators (preliminary beta versions
) and Satellite Maps of Rwanda Before and After the 1994 Genocide
GenoDynamics,
Rwanda Project (Center for International Development and
Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of Maryland, USA) see
also CIDCM's Minorities
at Risk Project www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar
Documents
and Reports on the Rwandan Genocide:
Carlsson
Report on Rwanda 1999 (Link not working) "Report
of the Independent Inquiry into United Nations actions during the 1994
Rwanda genocide" presented 15 December 1999 by Ingvar Carlsson
former Swedish Prime Minister, Han Sung-Joo, former South Korea
Foreign Minister (1993-94) and M. Kupolati of Nigeria, retired
Nigerians lieutenant general knowledgeable on United Nations peacekeeping
operations. Alternate
web location (Web
Genocide Documentation Centre ) This
panel was appointed in May 1999 by Kofi Annan The Report finds that the
UN ignored evidence that genocide was planned and had refused to act once
it began. In particular the Report is critical of the Security Council's
April 21, 1994 decision to reduce the strength of the United Nations Assistance
Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) after the genocide began and highlights the
role of Kofi Annan, who was head of UN peacekeeping at the time, sharply
criticizing his failure to act on a January 11, 1994 warning of the risk
of genocide sent by Gen. Dalliare, head of the UN peacekeepers in Rwanda.
The panel recommended that the Secretary-General should initiate an "action
plan to prevent genocide" in which each part of the "United
Nations system, including Member States, should examine what active steps"
they should take. The plan should include a "follow-up mechanism
to ensure that such steps are taken."
Fondation Hirondelle
- Section Kinyarwanda Hirondelle
Foundation (est. 1995, Lausanne, Switzerland) Media for Peace
and Human Dignity
www.hirondelle.org
"Leave
None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda" joint 1999 HRW/FIDH
by MacArthur Fellow Alison Des Forges, describing how the genocide
was planned and how it could have been prevented by the international
community.report Human
Rights Watch
www.hrw.org and FIDH
www.fidg.org http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/ 1999
Evidence
of Inaction : The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994 A
National Security Archive Briefing Book dated August 20, 2001 Edited by
William Ferroggiaro of the National
Security Archive (est. 1985, GWUniv.)www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv
Ndiaye
Report on Rwanda 1993: "Report by Special Rapporteur
Bacre Waly Ndiaye on his mission to Rwanda from 8 to 17 April 1993"
(25 pages) presented in August 1993. Bacre
Waly Ndaiye
of Senegal, Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary executions, investigated the massacres and other
violations committed between 1990 and 1993. He wrote "the victims
of the attacks, Tutsis in the overwhelming majority of cases, have been
targeted solely because of their membership of a certain ethnic group
and for no other objective reason." He warned of the potential for
escalating violence including the risk of genocide (paragraph 78). Ndaiye's
report was largely ignored.
Rwanda
: Le Génocide qu’on aurait pu stopper Organisation de l'Unité
Africaine, 7 Juillet 2000 [ link not working, since OUA became the AU]]
Kofi
Setordji's Rwanda Genocide Monument a virtual exhibition
on the Rwanda genocide by Ghanaian artist Kofi Setordji on the website
of the Nertheland's Visual Museum of Contemporary African Art www.vmcaa.nl/genocide
An
online dictionar y
http://www.harencity.nl/~harenkirambo/vocabulaire1.html
Some discontinued or inactive projects:
Radio
Agatashya, RDC-Rwanda-Burundi Station indépendante à vocation
humanitaire (1994-1996) Hirondelle Foundation (est. 1995, Lausanne,
Switzerland) www.hirondelle.org On
4 August 1994 Radio Agatashya broadcast for the first time in the South-Kivu
province.May 24, 1994 - Addressing the United Nations Commission of Human
Rights, Philippe Dahinden, in the name of Reporters
sans frontières (Reporters without borders), proposed the creation
of a "free radio station (...) that will allow Rwandans to receive
honest and independant information". RSF international gave its Swiss
section the mandate to create a radio station that will serve humanitarian
ends in fighting against the damaging effects of hate media. After 26
Months, on october 27, 1996 Radio Agatashya suspended it's broadcasts
from Bukavu in the South Kivu region of Ziare.
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