The Millennium Development Goals in Rwanda

One of the legacies of the Rwandan Genocide has been documented in a forthcoming report by Africa Rights, a human rights organization. The report focuses on the cases of nearly 200 Rwandan women infected by HIV as a result of being raped in the period of genocide.

A rural association of people living with AIDS
has launched a soap-making project that is already increasing individuals’ income, improving quality of life, and ensuring that they remain not only active and productive members of their community, but can also play a role in preventing the spread of the disease.

The UK government should be a more "critical friend" to Rwanda and concentrate on helping it to establish strong democratic roots and a legitimacy that will provide long-term stability for all Rwandans and succeeding governments, Christian Aid says in a new report.

Though it has many of its nationals as refugees in other countries, Rwanda is also host to refugees from Burundi and Congo - DRC. The refugees in Rwanda are now a problem for the Rwandan Government

"Ten years later, the children of Rwanda are still suffering the consequences of a conflict caused entirely by adults,” UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy