Rwanda Web Links
Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information generally on Rwanda and specifically in the context of Great Lakes conflicts. For related web links, see Burundi Web Links, Genocide Convention at Fifty: Web Links and Regional Resources: Africa.
These links complement the Special Report: Post-Genocide Reconciliation: The Challenge for Burundi and Rwanda.
General Resources
The sites below collect links to other Internet resources which describe the background, history and current events in Rwanda.
- Africa
South of the Sahara: Rwanda
An extensive collection of well-annotated links compiled by Karen
Fung at Stanford University for the African Studies Association.
Includes links to email lists, special projects, databases and archives,
articles and documents, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), news
and general sources. Organized alphabetically within country listing.
The web site also has regional and topical
categories of links, as well as a a site
searching capability.
- Center for African Studies: Rwanda
Page
Varied selection of annotated links from the Center for African
Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, covering general information,
country map and other collections of links.
- Index
on Africa: Country pages: Rwanda
The web site for Index on
Africa, a project of the Norwegian Council for Africa, contains
extensive annotated links, organized by news
pages, subject
pages and country
pages. Within each individual country page, links are organized
by subject category. Interesting features include the number of
links listed for each category, the tabulation of hits on a specific
link since it was added to the web page, as well as the opportunity
to rate the link. Search capability is available for the web site.
 Government Agencies and International Organizations
Republic of Rwanda
- Embassy of the Republic
of Rwanda - Washington, D.C.
The web site contains general information about Rwanda, its economy and
government. The News & Views section contains announcements, remarks and press releases, with some releases concerning an Update on the Process of Justice in Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide
- Government of
the Republic of Rwanda
The web site of the government of Rwanda has sections on the government
structure, history and politics, geography, economy and finance,
tourism and travel, news updates, FAQs and governance, and a section on genocide and justice which includes a list of Category
1 suspects still at large. The government's web site also links
to the president's
web site and related web sites.
African Union
- African Union
Successor organization to the Organization of African Unity (OAU),
the African Union's web site has news and events, documents, a listing
of member states (including Rwanda) and related
web links.
United Nations
- Integrated
Regional Information Network (IRIN): Rwanda
IRIN, a
unit of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), provides a clearinghouse of information for humanitarian
and international communities on the crises in sub-Saharan Africa.
Its web site contains special reports , news briefs organized by
country and region, such as Great
Lakes and Central Africa. Special reports for Rwanda focus on the 10th anniversary commemorations of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. An e-mail
subscription for IRIN reports is also available.
- International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda (ICTR)
UN web site contains press releases and news, decisions, transcripts
of hearings, rules of evidence and procedure, security council resolutions,
and other links. The web site also includes the texts of indictment, trial
chamber decisions, judgement, sentence and appeal chamber decisions
rendered by the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (ICTR)
against Jean-Paul
Akayesu on charges of genocide, September 2, 1998. An overview of ICTR achievements provides a history.
- International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, 7 April 2004
Special section of the United Nations web site devoted to material on the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Includes reports, UN resources and documents, statements, commemorative events, and a 24-hour webcast of UN activities.
- Reliefweb:
Rwanda: The latest
Sponsored by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), this site provides extensive current news and information
on a broad range of humanitarian relief issues in Rwanda and worldwide.
The web site includes maps, a archive of documents, links to related
sites and a search engine. Includes a special web page for documents
related to the Great
Lakes region (Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda).
- United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Web site of the UN organization based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Includes links to reports, statements, news sources, a database
of meetings and events on Africa, related
initiatives, a list
of member states, ECA partners and links to related web sites and news sources on Africa.
- UNHCR: Country
of Origin and Legal Information
The web site for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) has databases for country of origin and legal information
documents and reports. Pull-down menus allow selection by country
and/or subject and a specific search engine feature is also provided.
Each country compilation includes links to country reports, legal
documents, news and maps.
- United
Nations Human Rights Website: Documents Database
This database of UN documents can be searched by country, as well
as by UN body, mandate, subject, symbol and year. A search by Rwanda
retrieves documents organized by year.
United States
Maps and Guides
- ReliefWeb
Map Centre: Rwanda
Specialized maps of Rwanda from ReliefWeb covering population, drought,
refugee movements, assistance to refugees, food insecurity and other
issues. Also has maps for the Great
Lakes region of Africa and individual countries within the region.
Maps can be sorted by type, source, and keyword and are linked to
documents on ReliefWeb.
- Rwanda:
CIA World Factbook
Country information for Rwanda covering the geography, people, economy,
government, and infrastructure. Includes a map.
- Rwanda Maps
Maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of the
University of Texas at Austin for Rwanda,
Rwanda
and Burundi (1996), Rwanda
and Burundi (1975), and shaded relief of Rwanda
and Burundi. These maps were produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency.
- Your Nation
An interactive database with information derived from the CIA
World Factbook,Your Nation allows the user to compare or rank
statistics for any two countries or display a statistical summary
for an individual country. Settings are customizable.
Media and News Sources
- allAfrica.com:
Rwanda
The AllAfrica.com web site lists current news stories on Rwanda from
various Africa-related wire services and other organizations. Each
story contains a brief summary with a link to the full text, as
well as links by topic and region (Central
Africa). Special sections include: The
United States, Canada and Africa and topics such as the Rwandan genocide.
- BBC
News | World | Africa | Country profiles | Country profile: Rwanda
Country information contains an overview of Rwanda's recent history, chronology, fact sheet, a profile of President Kagame, and a brief description of media.
A search on "Rwanda" brings up news stories and special reports.
.
- BBC News: Rwandan Genocide:10 years on
A BBC News In Depth report, it provides a comprehensive overview of the genocide, with background information, a photo essay, stories of survivors, audio and video, etc.
- International Crisis Group (ICG): Rwanda
Reports and analysis from the International Crisis Group on issues in Rwanda and Central Africa.
- Internews
ICTR Reports
Internews provides current,
daily reports on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Earlier reports from May 1998 are found in the archive.
The web site also includes special
reports, photos
from the trials and links to related web sites.
- OneWorld.Net:
Country Guide: Rwanda
Current news stories and analysis on Rwanda contributed by One World
partners, with additional country profile information and emphasis on the Rwandan genocide. Links to OneWorld
Africa, another portal providing highlights on current issues in Africa.
- Yahoo
News: Full coverage: World: Rwanda
Numerous links to news sources, stories from various wire services, reports in audio and video, and related web sites.
Political Resources
Selected Reports and Speeches
- The 1994 Rwandan Genocide and U.S. Policy
Posted on the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) web site, testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Operations in May 1998 by Holly Burkhalter, advocacy director for PHR and current member of the Institute's Board of Directors.
- Bystanders
to Genocide
An investigative article by Samantha Power in the September 2001
issue of The Atlantic Monthly on U.S. policy during the genocide
in Rwanda.
- Preventing
Genocide: How the Early Use of Force Might Have Succeeded in Rwanda
An April 1998 report to the Carnegie Commission On Preventing Deadly Conflict, includes sections on the history of international involvement in Rwanda, a proposed mandate and intervention force, an alternatve
operational plan, and identifying military force requirements, by Scott Fell.
- Prosecuting Genocide
in Rwanda
A analytical report from the Hunman Right First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and National
Trials, July 1997, with discussions of the establishment, statutue, proceedings and summary of the Tribunal's work to that point.
- Report
of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations
During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
A December 15, 1999 report on the United Nations web site. The site
also includes a December 16, 1999 statement
of the Secretary-General on receiving the report.
- The
U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994
Sixteen U.S.
government documents, declassified under the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) concerning U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda,
published August 20, 2001 on the web site of the National Security
Archive at The George Washington University.
Updated: April 6 2004
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