The AERG Legal and Counselling Helpline was established to fill the gap in support for young survivors with legal and mental health challenges, so that they can access support regardless of where they are located. Patrick Nkubana of the Aegis Trust has … Continue Reading »
Category: Survivors’ Rights
Early Release of Convicted Genocidaires
A guest post from Jacqueline Murekatete, Genocide Survivors Foundation. The United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT) which was put in place to finish the tasks left incomplete by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the … Continue Reading »
Women Genocide Survivors Retreat
Many women survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda still struggle greatly with on-going trauma and more. Building on the success of the 2017 retreat, Liliane Pari Umuhoza (learn more about her below) is again teaming up … Continue Reading »
GAERG: Where student survivors find solace
By Lydia Atiena, The New Times Fidèle Nsengiyaremye was only three years old when in 1994 he narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Interahamwe militia who wiped out his entire immediate family, leaving him as the sole survivor. … Continue Reading »
Over 54,000 Gacaca cases of looted property are unsettled
By Eugène Kwibuka, The New Times Government should devise new strategies to execute thousands of Gacaca judgments about property looted or destroyed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that are yet to be implemented so that the offenders can … Continue Reading »
The plight of children born of rape during genocide
By Emmanuel Ntirenganya, The New Times The law governing the Fund for Support and Assistance to Survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi (FARG) does not recognise children born of rape during the Genocide among those entitled for relief assistance given … Continue Reading »
What happened to the children born of rape?
In the Sunday 8th April edition of The Sunday Times Magazine, a feature was published on “The Rwandan genocide 24 years on: what happened to the children born of rape?“in which journalist Christina Lamb meets Rwanda’s lost generation, whose Tutsi … Continue Reading »
KWIBUKA24: Rwanda Starts Week Long Mourning Period
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro, KTPress The most challenging week in Rwanda when country and friends of Rwanda commemorate over a million Tutsis who perished during the Genocide 1994 has arrived. April 7th to 13th and stretching over a period of … Continue Reading »
Young Genocide Survivors Launch ‘Hope’ Activities
Young Genocide Survivors Launch ‘Hope’ Activities by Jean de la Croix Tabaro, KT Press. Thousands of students genocide survivors have converged to Nyanza district in Southern Rwanda to launch activities that restore hope among survivors’ community. AERG-GAERG week is an … Continue Reading »
Empowering Secondary School Leavers
With funding from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and in partnership with Survivors Fund (SURF), the National Student’s Association of Genocide Survivors in Rwanda (AERG) implemented the “Empowering Vulnerable Young Survivors who have left Secondary School to Create, … Continue Reading »