By Flora Drury, BBC News A 24-year-old Rwandan whose mother was raped in the genocide tells the BBC how he came to learn of the circumstances of his birth. Their names have been changed because of the shame surrounding rape, … Continue Reading »
Category: Survivors’ Rights
Kwibuka25: Initiative to recover assets of genocide survivors gets funding
By Michel Nkurunziza, The New Times Over Rwf 80 million (around £75,000) has been provided by sponsors to help genocide young survivors and widows to recover assets that were misappropriated during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. At least 2,000 … Continue Reading »
25 Years On
Today marks the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the start of the 100-day commemoration in Rwanda which runs through to July. 25 years on from the genocide, it is as important … Continue Reading »
Foundation Rwanda
Since Foundation Rwanda’s inception in 2007, Survivors Fund (SURF) has been a key partner in providing life-changing services to the Foundation Rwanda families, addressing the education and counselling needs of young people conceived by rape during the 1994 genocide committed … Continue Reading »
Rwanda’s Children of Rape Have Come of Age
In this weekened’s The New York Times, Jonathan Torgovnik, publishes an update of his remarkable photojournalism work which features women survivors of the genocide in Rwanda, and their children born to them of rape. This coincides with the relaunch of … Continue Reading »
25 Years On Film
We are proud to confirm details of the screening of our new film, 25 Years On, which will be at Rich Mix on 11am, Sunday 7th April, the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in … Continue Reading »
Born of rape
An article about SURF’s work with children born of genocide rape, first published on Deutsche Welle (by Eva de Vries), which we publish for the first time here on our website… During the Rwandan genocide, estimates suggest that 250,000 to … Continue Reading »
Denmark extradites Genocide fugitive Wenceslas Twagirayezu – will the UK follow?
On the news this week that Denmark has extradited genocide fugitive Wenceslas Twagirayezu to face trial this week, as noted below, we hope that this will influence the UK Government to extradite the five genocide suspects in the UK to … Continue Reading »
Daphrose
With Andrew Sutton and Rachel Collingwood of Central Studios, we have been in Rwanda filming an array of the projects of Survivors Fund (SURF) and our partners over the course of the past week. We will be editing these over … Continue Reading »
Justice and Reconciliation Project Visit
This month, Survivors Fund (SURF) hosted a small group of women from Northern Uganda lead by Dr. Erin Baines co-founder of the Justice and Reconciliation Project in northern Uganda and Professor at the University of British Colombia. The group came … Continue Reading »