Reports
“As Long as We Live on the Streets, They Will Beat Us”
Rwanda’s Abusive Detention of Children
This report documents the arbitrary detention of street children for periods of up to six months at Gikondo Transit Center, in Kigali, the capital. It follows three Human Rights Watch reports in 2006, 2015, and 2016 on transit centers, including Gikondo, where ill-treatment and beatings are common. Since 2017, a new legal framework and policies under the government’s strategy to “eradicate delinquency” have sought to legitimize and regulate detention in so-called transit centers. But in reality, this new legislation provides cover for the continuing arbitrary detention of, and violations against, detainees, including children.
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Arming Rwanda
The Arms Trade and Human Rights Abuses in the Rwandan WarOn October 1990, the Rwandese Patriotic Front launched an invasion from neighboring Uganda, aimed at overthrowing the Rwandan government. While the war has stopped in an uneasy peace, an estimated 4,500 people died in the conflict and nearly one million civilians are refugees. -
Beyond the Rhetoric
Continuing Human Rights Abuses in RwandaMore than 300 Tutsi and members of political parties opposed to Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana were massacred in northwestern Rwanda in late January 1993 by private militia at the direction of local and central government authorities. -
Report of the International Commission of Investigation on Human Rights Violations in Rwanda
Since October 1, 1990Human rights have suffered seriously in Rwanda since the beginning of the war there on October 1, 1990.