Jacqueline Murekatete is a human rights activist, and founder of the NGO Genocide Survivors Foundation. Aged nine Murekatete lost the majority of her family during the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi,[1] she was granted asylum in 1995 in the US,[2] where she was brought up by her uncle.[3] Murekatete began to tell her story after David Gewirtzman, a survivor of The Holocaust, spoke of his experiences at her school.[4][5]
Murekatete's nonprofit, Genocide Survivors Foundation educates people about Genocide and other mass atrocity crimes, and raises funds to support genocide survivors.[6]
Murekatete was honoured by New York University in 2011 with the Distinguished Young Alumna Award,[7] and she was one of the grant recipients and award winner of the 2010 VH1 Do Something Awards.[8][9] She is also a recipient of the Global Peace and Tolerance Award from the United Nations.[10]
References edit
- ^ Urban Walker 2006, p. 107.
- ^ Brown 2004.
- ^ Huang 2012.
- ^ Singer 2008, p. 4.
- ^ Birkner 2005.
- ^ "What We Do". Genocide Survivors Foundation.
- ^ NYU 2011.
- ^ Salamone 2010.
- ^ DoSomething.org.
- ^ Sambira 2013.
Bibliography edit
- Birkner, Gabrielle (4 April 2005). "David Gewirtzman United By Horror". The Jewish Week. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- Brown, Jeffrey (9 April 2004). "Remembering the Past". PBS. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- "Meet Do Something Award Winner Jacqueline Murekatete". Do Something. 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- Huang, Nancy (18 April 2012). "Jacqueline Murekatete, 27". Time Out. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- "Jacqueline Murekatete (CAS '07) chosen for Distinguished Young Alumna Award". New York University. 10 October 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- Sambira, Jocelyne (5 April 2013). "Rwanda genocide survivors struggle to rebuild their lives". Africa Renewal. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- Salamone, Gina (18 July 2010). "Jacqueline Murekatete, survivor of 1994 Rwandan Genocide, to be honored for activism by VH1". New York Daily News. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- Singer, Alan J. (2008). Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach (3rd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-0805864465.
- Urban Walker, Margaret (2006). Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations After Wrongdoing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521009256.