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- Reconciliation still a major challenge.
IRIN News, 14 April 2008.
Brigitte Mukandoli was a schoolgirl when a group of militias manning a roadblock near her village of Bishenyi, close to the Rwandan capital, Kigali, seized her.
- Kigali Conference Calls for More Women at All Levels of Peacekeeping Operations. UNIFEM, 1 April 2008.
Participants of a high-level conference organized by UNIFEM and the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) have issued a declaration calling for programmed increases of the proportion of women in recruitment and training for peacekeeping operations, proactive gender training programmes for peacekeepers and their organizations, integration of mission-specific gender training in pre-deployment programmes, reaffirmation and strengthening of the Zero Tolerance Policy for Acts of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and information sharing among peacekeeping contingents and troops to promote best practices in preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).
- UNIFEM, RDF decry gender violence.
Sunday Times, Rwanda, 30 September 2007. CALLS for a holistic understanding of gender equality concepts and respect for human rights dominated Thursday’s gender based violence meeting at the Ministry of defense headquarters.
- Rwanda frees editor detained for rape.
Sowetan, 30 August 2007.
Rwandan authorities freed a local weekly newspaper editor who was detained for a week on rape charges, officials said today.
- Final witness links accused to rape, murder in Rwanda.
CanWest News Service, 12 June 2007.
Desire Munyaneza was one of the bosses who ordered militia to rape and kill Tutsis during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, a witness told a groundbreaking war crimes trial Tuesday.
- Truth-Telling as Talking Cure? Insecurity and Retraumatization in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts. Karen Brouneus. Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. 2008
- Rwanda: Broken Bodies, Torn Spirits: Living with Genocide, Rape and HIV/AIDS, African Rights, Kigali, 2004
- Marked for Death, rape survivors living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda,
Amnesty International, 2004
- Struggling To Survive: Barriers to Justice for Rape Victims in Rwanda,
Human Rights Watch, 2004
- I Palmer, Psychological costs of war in Rwanda
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 2002
- Shattered Lives :Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide and its Aftermath,
Human Rights Watch, 1996
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