Rwanda Genocide

How to Make Population Growth Reverse Itself

Carl Safina | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, 7 Billion World Population, Population Growth, Literacy, Poverty, World Population Growth, Anthropocene, Green News

If our values change, we might use science and technology to save us. If our failed values persist, science and technology will only press our accelerator.

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The Indie on Demand Movie Review: Kinyarwanda

Dan Persons | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Movie Reviews, Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Genocide, Drama, Africa, Atrocities, Film, African Americans, Movies, Entertainment News

This time, we're looking at Kinyarwanda, a new drama in which director Alrick Brown uses a fractured timeline and mutable genres to portray how the Rwandan genocide of 1994 looked to those trapped in its madness.

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Rwandans Speak Kinyarwanda

Alrick Brown | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: 9/11, Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide, Kinyarwanda, Sundance Film Festival, Rwanda Genocide Anniversary, Home News

Africa brought Ishmael, Joshua, and I together, and it also brought Kinyarwanda into my life. The film has empowered Rwandans to share their stories with the world. Their story is not about genocide. Their story is about faith, hope, life, love and forgiveness.

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Rwanda, Syria and the Responsibility to Protect

Simon Adams | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Syria Homs, Rwanda Genocide, Syria Arab Spring, Human Rights, United Nationa Homs, Un Syria, Syria Violence, United Nations Syria, Syria Assad, World News

"Where is the world?" This is a question we have seen Syrians scrawl upon crude placards in Homs and elsewhere. And while the diplomatic mission of Kofi Annan must be vigorously supported, the time has arrived to begin contemplating other measures.

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New Hampshire Woman Wasn't Rwandan Genocide Culprit, Relatives Say

AP | Posted 05.08.2012

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CONCORD, N.H. — Testimony has ended in the case of a New Hampshire woman who prosecutors say committed acts of violence during the Rwanda genoci...

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Contemporary Visions Of Africa

Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Yossi Milo Gallery, Hague Museum of Photography, Pieter Hugo, Apartheid, Slidewide, Race, Nollywood, Rwanda Genocide, South Africa, Africa, Genocide, Aids, Contemporary Africa, Contemporary Photography, This Must Be the Place, Pieter Hugo Photography, Wildlife, Arts News

So much contemporary photography these days is conceptual, self-referential and didactic, it becomes easy to forget the immense power of a human story...

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Class War in the USA

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Republican Primary, Santorum, Class Warfare, Elections 2012, Republican Party, Romney, 2012 Election, Class War, World News

When Americans suggest the wealthiest members of society might pay a little more tax, they are not unleashing Mao's Red Guards, or Rwanda's Interahamwe. They are debating the relative costs we should all bear for being privileged enough to live in a healthy, safe democracy.

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New Hampshire Jury Picked For Rwanda Genocide Trial

AP | By LYNNE TUOHY | Posted 02.22.2012

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CONCORD, N.H. -- A federal jury of eight men and four women is set to begin hearing graphic testimony in the case of a New Hampshire woman charged wit...

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Working, Not Begging in Haiti

Willa Shalit | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Unifem, Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Volunteering in Haiti, Haiti, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Impact News

I'm flying back to Haiti, remembering words spoken to me nearly a decade ago: "We are not beggars!" The speaker was Rwandan master weaver Pascasie Mukabuligo.

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Two Cultures, Two Genocides, One Story

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, The Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide, Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Museum, David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete, Culture News

David's harrowing memories from Eastern Europe at the hands of the Nazis and Jacqueline's genocide experiences in Rwanda, although more than half a century apart, are hauntingly similar.

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Coloring Brighter Futures For Rwandan Children Born Of Rape

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Foundation Rwanda, LBi Syrup, Gifts That Give Back, Video, Rape, Color Rwanda With Hope, Rwanda Education, Genocide, Rwanda Rape Victims, Rwanda Genocide Victims, Impact News

For children born of rape in Rwanda, living the life of a poverty-stricken outsider is expected. But Foundation Rwanda is trying to change that. F...

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Africa Mourns Death Of Christopher Hitchens

Michael Mungai | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Christian Fundamentalism, Christopher Hitchens Death, Christopher Hitchens, Africa, Rwanda, Christopher Hitchens Africa, Hiv, Kenya, Christopher Hitchens HIV/AIDS, Rwanda Genocide, Aids, Christopher Hitchens Activism, Nairobi, Impact News

Africa has just lost one of its greatest allies in the fight for human rights.

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Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Darfur Genocide, Genocide, Raphael Lemkin, The Holocaust, UN Genocide Convention, Yugoslavia Genocide, World News

We must keep in mind that while posthumous justice for the victims of genocide is an important consideration, the most critical imperative has been the prevention of future carnages. One need only look at Darfur to realize that this goal is far from accomplished.

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Kinyarwanda: Forgiveness is Freedom

Andrew Himes | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Africa, Forgiveness, Interfaith Relationships, Compassion, Genocide, Kinyarwanda, Video, Religion News

On disclosing our own crimes and failures, we can be forgiven. By acknowledging the painful truths of the past, we can reconcile with our enemies and repair our broken society.

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From Chicago, Music in the Key of Life

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Women's Rights, Politics, Human Rights, Rape, Violence Against Women, Africa, Progressive Music, Activist Music, Indie Music, Music, Congo, Social Consiousness, Indie Rock, Clara May Band, Chicago News

Lullaby is in a larger sense an aria for the brave women of Congo, Rwanda and elsewhere who have experienced sexual violence, and who have risen out of the ashes like phoenix.

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On the Road in Rwanda

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 01.17.2012

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Here in Karama, the Tubeho Association, which consists of 76 women and 34 men all afflicted with HIV, decided on honey as not only a logical high-return commodity indigenous to the fertile hills of Southeast Rwanda.

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Empowering Women In Post-Conflict Societies

HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide, African Women, Empowering Women, Women's Rights, Global Grassroots, Non-Government Organization, Greatest Person of the Day, Good News, Sexual Assault, Impact News

When asked about her personal and professional inspirations, Gretchen Steidle Wallace names neither an A-list celebrity nor a political figure but, ra...

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Nyiramasuhuko: The Mother Who Awarded Rape For Murder

Sam Sasan Shoamanesh | Posted 10.09.2011

The wheels of international criminal justice may be slow, but turn they will, and as Pauline Nyiramasuhuko's case would come to illustrate, they can generate important judicial outcomes.

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Independence Day

Victoria Uwonkunda | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Refugee, Darfur Genocide, Un, South Sudan Independence, World News

A few days into their new life as an independent country, South Sudan has a long and steep road ahead of them.

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Rwandan Woman Becomes First Female Convicted Of Genocide

AP | By SUKHDEV CHHATBAR | Posted 08.24.2011

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ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) -- The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of wa...

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Top Rwandan Genocide Suspect Captured In Congo

AP | Posted 07.27.2011

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KINSHASA, Congo — The suspected leader of an extremist Hutu militia was arrested in eastern Congo after years on the run, a Congolese official s...

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Never Again: Are We Still Remembering Or Starting To Forget?

Lee Bycel | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Genocide, Rwanda Genocide, Save Darfur, Darfur Genocide, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Ethnic Cleansing, Preventing Genocide, Never Again, Armenian Genocide, South Sudan, Genocide Prevention, Religion News

As the decades pass, regrettably, the incomprehensible nightmare become part of history and seems to be replaced by new nightmares. We seem to be forgetting a lot all the time.

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Ex-Army Chief Gets 30 Years For Role In Rwandan Genocide

AP | Posted 07.17.2011

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ARUSHA, Tanzania — A court has sentenced Rwanda's former army chief to 30 years in prison for ordering killings during the 1994 genocide. The I...

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Rwanda Rises: A Lesson in Hope

Francine LeFrak | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Same Sky, World Bank, Paul Kagame, Women in Business, Fair Trade, World News

Let's face it, our world has seen better days. Take a look at the newspaper on any given day and you'll find enough tragedy and disaster to send you s...

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Inspiration to Action: Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda

Rachel Olstein Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Volunteering, International Development, Service, Orphans, Volunteer, Israel, Volunteerism, Rwanda, Impact News

The Village today is home to nearly 400 orphans and vulnerable children who have a home, a family, access to education, health care and counseling.

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