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In 2001, women made up 15% of ministerial positions, 9% of the National Assembly, and 18% of the Senate. [10] As of 2017, Burundi ranked 25th in the world in women's parliamentary representation. [14] Research points to women activists and their work pushing for representation in the wake of the state's civil war as playing a key role in the ...
The Burundian Civil War was a civil war in Burundi lasting from 1993 to 2005. The civil war was the result of longstanding ethnic divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi ethnic groups. The conflict began following the first multi-party elections in the country since its independence from Belgium in 1962, and is seen as formally ending with the ...
Marie-Thérèse Toy, is a Burundian academic, lecturer and researcher. She is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament . [ 1 ] Toy is the author of the English-language novel Weep Not, Refugee (2014), about the Burundian Civil War .
The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History trans Scott Straus; Lemarchand, René (2009). The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4120-4. Ngaruko, Floribert; Nkurunziza, Janvier D. (2005). "Civil War and Its Duration in Burundi". In Collier, Paul; Sambanis ...
1965 Burundian coup d'état attempt Burundi. Hutu military officers Victory. Mwambutsa IV remains on the throne but moves into exile. 86 alleged conspirators executed. Martyazo Rebellion (1972) Burundi: Martyazo: Victory. Start of the First Burundian Genocide.
The Burundian Civil War enhanced the vulnerability of a large part of the population, so in 2004, Nizigama closed her practice and devoted herself to defending women by practicing legal assistance in the Association of Women Lawyers of Burundi (AFJ). She was also active in the Christian Action for the Abolition of Torture, of which she becomes ...
The Itaba massacre was, according to Amnesty International, the "massacre of between 173 and 267 unarmed civilians, many of them women, children and the elderly, who were deliberately and unlawfully killed in the Commune of Itaba, Gitega Province, Burundi on 9 September 2002". [1] The killings were carried out by members of the armed forces of ...
Burundian women (2 C) B. ... Burundian victims of crime (1 C, 1 P) P. People of Kirundo Province (14 P) People of the Burundian Civil War ... Pages in category ...