Supporting Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda |
By JOHNSON KANAMUGIRE, Rwanda Today The government faces a tough task of integrating back to society the increasing number of genocide convicts who are set to complete their sentence terms soon. As the country commemorates 25 years after the 1994 … Continue Reading »
By Kelly Rwamapera, The New Times With Genocide convicts increasingly completing their sentences, and subsequently set free, there is need for greater sensitisation of the general public, especially survivors, on how to relate with freed convicts once the latter have arrived … Continue Reading »
By Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti, The New Times Despite efforts by Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS) and partners, most people who took part in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi are yet to show remorse and apologise. This was revealed Thursday by RCS … Continue Reading »
By James Karuhanga, The New Times The Permanent Mission of Rwanda to the UN on Saturday received a copy of New Zealand’s diplomatic archive on Rwanda during the latter’s tenure on the Security Council in 1993-94, as the Genocide against … Continue Reading »
From the Survivors Fund (SURF) 25 Years On film project which documents the current situation of the Survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The recording of testimonies has always been an important part of SURF’s work, to … Continue Reading »
Each year Survivors Fund (SURF) publishes its Annual Report and Accounts, which are officially filed with the Charity Commission. Our 2018 report is now thus publicly available to download and read here. Below is an extract from the report, highlighting … Continue Reading »
Each year Survivors Fund (SURF) publishes its Annual Report and Accounts, which are officially filed with the Charity Commission. Our 2018 report is now thus publicly available to download and read here. Below is an extract from the report, highlighting … Continue Reading »
A new paper, Lessons from Rwanda: Post-Genocide Law and Policy, by Zachary D. Kaufman in the Stanford Law & Policy Review (August 2019) sets out the Lessons from Rwanda which emphasises that “learning from the Genocide against the Tutsi provides … Continue Reading »
The New Times, July 2019 Government, through the Fund for support for Genocide survivors (FARG), has approved the plan to increase a monthly living allowances for vulnerable survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The monthly stipend is set … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2018/19, we outline here our current work on the AERG Legal and Counselling Helpline. The Legal and Counselling Helpline (Helpline) was established in August 2013 as a partnership between Survivors Fund … Continue Reading »