Legacy website of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) which was established by the United Nations Security Council in 1995 to prosecute those responsible for the genocide that took place in Rwanda during 1994. The ICTR closed in 2015. There is background information and a timeline to the genocide. Selected documents relating to each trial, including indictments, judgements and transcripts, are given in PDF.
The African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII) makes available treaties, cases, resolutions, decisions, reports and other publications of African regional organisations. It also provides access to legislation and cases from 16 African countries, via its search facility. The home page has links to regional and national African websites. AfricanLII is a project of the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU) at the University of Cape Town law faculty.
Online (PDF) version of a report published by Human Rights Watch which provides a digest of judgements of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The digest is organised by subject including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, individual responsibility, command responsibility and fair trial requirements and includes judgements available up to the end of 2008.
Section of WorldLII's Countries service covering Rwanda. The site offers search facilities to trace internet resources for Rwanda. Link collections provide access to materials relating to Rwanda's Government, Legislation and Courts with subject sections focusing on Foreign Investment, Privatisation and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to Rwanda on all of WorldLII. WorldLII was created and is being developed by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).
The 2003 Constitution of Rwanda as amended to 2015 is available here on the Constitute website, which is run by the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
Website of the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, at the University of Minnesota in the United States. The site includes educational resources relating to the Nazi holocaust and genocide studies in general, including video and audio materials, personal narratives and photographs. There is also a searchable database of relevant books and articles. Information is provided about the work of the Centre and its newsletter is available from the Fall 1999 issue onwards.
