Residents in remote areas of Tanzania and Rwanda in East Africa are receiving medical supplies through the use of drones, far surpassing similar efforts in the U.S., according to Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at George Mason University.
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The US record on gender equality is dismal. Rwanda, largely as a consequence of the loss of men in the 1994 genocide, has made significant progress in the legal status of women. At that time, the population of Rwanda was…
The 28th Meeting of the Parties (MOP 28) to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer met in Rwanda last week. Among the discussion was the use and misuse of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC). The related working group met…
In 1997, an underdog group of lawyers and activists prosecuted rape as a crime against humanity. The Uncondemned is the against-the-odds story of their fight for the first conviction—and of the women who braved witness assassinations to testify.In 1994, Pierre…
Nani Jansen, Media Legal Defence Initiative, has published Denying Genocide or Denying Free Speech? A Case Study of the Application of Rwanda’s Genocide Denial Laws in volume 12 of the Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights (2014). Here is…
Fred Kennedy Nkusi, Independent Institute of Lay Adventists of Kigali (INILAK), has published Journalistic Privilege to Confidentiality Sources: Analysis of Rwanda’s Media Law, in volume 1 of the Boston Unviersity International Law Journal (2014). Here is the abstract.This Article…
Perhaps the most damning anecdote— told by French academic Gérard Prunier and confirmed by New York Times journalist Howard French — was of a private converationRice had after her first trip to Central Africa around this time: "Museveni [of…
A group of international food safety experts and regional representatives met this week to lay the groundwork for an African food safety authority. The two-day workshop, hosted by the Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources Monday and Tuesday in Kigali, Rwanda,…
The National Geographic Magazine recently ran an article on Africa's Albertine Rift that describes the property angle that swirls around the tragedy in Rwanda:By the mid-1980s every acre of arable land outside the parks was being farmed. Sons were…
