Archive for the ‘Trauma’ Category

Rwanda July 2008

Consequences

9 May 2013

It is estimated that between five and twenty thousand women were raped and bore children of that rape during the genocide were born as a result of rape … Read more »

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Outputs

30 Jan 2013

We post here an update from the most recent quarter (from October to December 2012) of our Widowed Survivors Empowerment Project (WSEP), a three year grant funded by … Read more »

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AERG Research

18 Dec 2012

This week, AERG published a new research report on legal and homeless problems on effecting trauma in student survivors of the genocide. The research was funded by Survivors … Read more »

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Counselling

26 Nov 2012

A guest post by Dr Jemma Hogwood, Clinical Psychologist, SURF Rwanda: For the last 6 months, four groups of women have been meeting regularly in their local communities … Read more »

Child

Josiane

14 Sep 2012

An estimated 20,000 children were born as a result of rape committed against Tutsi women during the 1994 genocide. Josiane was herself born as a result of rape. … Read more »

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Disclosure

1 Aug 2012

Tutsi women were raped and often mutilated during the 1994 genocide.  Victim’s testimonies confirm that women were subject to sexual brutality. Most women who were directly threatened with … Read more »