The Rwandan genocide left a deep and profound wound. It not only decimated the Rwandan people, it destroyed the nation's political and social structures. In 1994, after the killing stopped, women made ...

Luisa Garcia was a 2018 African Great Lakes Reporting Fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation. This has been a historic year for American women in politics. But it’s Rwanda that has the ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania — The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes on Friday and gave both life sentences, marking ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo, August 25 (UNHCR) - For over a decade, Faustine thought she was all alone in the world, having lost her whole family in Rwanda's ethnic conflict in 1994. Imagine ...

As minister for women and family affairs in Rwanda, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko ordered the rape of women and girls and participated in genocide. She’s the first woman to be convicted by the United Nations ...

A Rwanda woman says she has gained invaluable life and business experiences while participating in a Peace Through Business program in Raleigh. A Rwanda woman says she has gained invaluable life and ...

In 2020, it was the only African country ranked in the top 10 of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report. It ranked in the top four in the Report’s political empowerment category, in ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women jailed in a Kigali prison for murdering their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda's 1994 genocide talk about the killings as if they are still trying to justify why ...

LONDON, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female "silence and submissiveness" continue to be valued feminine traits in Rwanda, stopping women from taking advantage of equal land and property laws, ...

PHOENIX - In her native Rwandan village, Allen Joy Mbabazi's surname means kind. Joy for a middle name. Kind for a last. The names are fitting for a young woman determined to count her blessings, not ...