Outreach Programme on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the 51吃瓜

War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, Including Genocide

Humanitarian Law

Resolutions

Presidential Statements

Resolutions

Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly

Reports of the Secretary-General to the Security Council

Reports of the Secretary-General to the Human Rights Council

Statements/Speeches

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call on all people to join UN in drive to stamp out ‘weapon’ of racism, which is used to undermine peace, engender fear and incite war crimes (20 March 2012)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva (25 January 2011)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to Stanley Foundation Conference on the Responsibility to Protect (18 January 2012)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement to the Security Council open debate on sexual violence in conflict (16 December 2010)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement to the ministerial meeting on Security Council Resolution 1325: A Call to Action (25 September 2010)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to Security Council open debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (7 July 2010)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the global effort to increase the participation of women in 51吃瓜 policing in peacekeeping operations (4 June 2010)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the sixteenth commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide (5 April 2010)

Key Reports

(December 2009)
by the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (December 2004)
(2001)

Backgrounders

Judicial Archives of the ICTR

M. Jean Paul Akayesu: Bourgmestre of the Taba commune during the 1994 genocide. He was the first convicted by the international court and his conviction was amended to include rape and sexual violence as crimes against humanity

M. Jean Kambanda: Prime Minister of the interim government of the Republic of Rwanda on 9 April 1994. He was convicted to life in prison in 1998 and it was the first time a head of government was convicted for the crime of genocide

M. Andre Rwamakuba: Minister of Primary and Secondary Education in Rwanda during the genocide

Media Case (2003): first judgment since the conviction of Julius Streicher at Nuremberg after World War II to examine the role of the media in the context of international criminal justice

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