Conflict in Rwanda

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is set to close in 2010 but more than half its cases have yet to go to trial. There is a funding shortfall for the tribunal and a lack of international cooperation in the investigations.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame and the new prosecutor for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Hassan Jallow, pledged on Thursday to work together to speed up the process of bringing to justice perpetrators of the 1994 genocide.

Amnesty International examines the Gacaca Jurisdictions and assesses them in relation to international fair trial standards and the Rwandese human rights environment in which they will operate.

The Rwandan government's release of 25,029 detainees - out of a total of 112,000 has been welcomed by Amnesty.

The relationship between rape and war exceeds simple analogy. Because women are situated at the center of both family and cultural reproduction, they become strategic targets when the aim is to eradicate a people. Thanks to the struggle of women’s groups all around the world, rape is now recognized as a war crime and an act of genocide.

The Rwandan government has repeatedly promised to remedy the human rights problems that many children still suffer, but words are not enough, said Sara Rakita, author of this Human Rights Watch report.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, are planning to establish a joint telecommunications network which would could lead to the development of a common database of decisions, available to legal personnel and the public