Amnesty International has asked the Government to conclude a review of its genocide ideology laws which were created to silence critics, it said on Friday. In a new report titled "Unsafe to speak out: Restrictions on freedom of expression in Rwanda", Amnesty said ‘genocide ideology' and ‘sectarianism' laws were being used to suppress political […]

It is difficult to change the patterns of performance that have dominated society for ages, even more so when legal and institutional frameworks reinforce popular perceptions and the status quo. By reforming policies on paper, however, societies take one of the first steps in self-transformation. So it is with Rwanda. The act of reforming […]