Rwandan women rebuild their country from the ground up after genocide 02:22. Luisa Garcia was a 2018 African Great Lakes Reporting Fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation.

When he was campaigning for the presidency in 2017, he made the famous speech of "Rwandan women, don't touch," even today, 65 percent of married women find wife-beating excusable.

Nyirabarame, a two-time Olympiad specialises in marathon and long-distance running. She represented Rwanda at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 but failed to qualify for London 2012.In ...

Robert De Niro’s wife, Grace Hightower, has a new book, “The Women of Rwanda,” dedicated to the first lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame. Philanthropist Hightower, who started Coffees of ...

How women are stepping up to remake Rwanda. Tragedy and necessity lead to leadership opportunities that once seemed unimaginable. The challenge now: to make them last.

Still, Rwanda is our teacher. If women there reinvented a country out of smoldering ashes, surely we Americans can clear the way for women to break gridlock, embrace differences, and restore ...

Step into Kiziba refugee camp that hosts Congolese refugees in western Rwanda, and you'll quickly hear about Iribagiza Nakabonye. Not because her restaurant is famous, but her real magic lies in being ...

Women made up 70 percent of Rwanda's population after the genocide in 1994. They joined politics in unprecedented numbers, helping to form a more equitable society. Still, there's much more to do.

They were sentenced for up to 10 years for violating anti-abortion laws. Some say their pregnancy was a result of rape. Rwanda has now liberalized its abortion laws and pardoned hundreds of the women.

A Rwandan woman and her 25-year-old daughter are photographed together as part of the book “Rwandan Daughters.” As with most children conceived after rape, the daughter has never known her father.

Women's rights activist and presidential hopeful Diane Rwigara, seen in a May 14 photo at her home in Kigali, Rwanda. Her brother said that she and other family members are in police custody.

These Rwandan women were imprisoned for having abortions, before they were pardoned and released in 2019. From left: Nyiramahirwe Epiphanie, 26, was sentenced to 15 years.