ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
- UNIFEM’s Women, War, Peace portal
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- Groups assisting genocide survivors in Rwanda
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) - Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) - Other Human Rights/Humanitarian Law
International Courts
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- International Criminal Court
- Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
News on The Rwanda Genocide
- Hirondelle News Agency - In English, French, Kinyarwanda, Swahili. The Hirondelle News Agency in Arusha (Tanzania) has covered all major judiciary events related to the 1994 Rwandan genocide since 1996, mainly the proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), but also the Gacaca tribunals and the trials conducted according to classic justice procedures in Rwanda.
- Internews - covers the trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and local genocide trials in Rwanda itself.
Background Documents
Backgrounders
- Responsibility to Protect: Who is responsible for protecting vulnerable peoples?
- “Never again”: preventing genocide and punishing those responsible
- Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty on the Responsibility to Protect
- Feature Articles from Africa Renewal magazine