Primate's fund loses long-time Africa specialist.Ten years after the Rwandan genocide The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutu sympathizers in Rwanda and was the largest atrocity during the Rwandan Civil War. , many colleagues believe Rob Shropshire's name will forever be associated with Rwanda. In the aftermath of the genocide genocide, in international law, the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. he visited Rwanda and resolved to tell its story every way he could: in public meetings, poetry, and countless essays. Mr. Shropshire, development team co-ordinator with the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, left the organization in April to join the Canadian Human Rights Foundation in Montreal as director of programs. Mr. Shropshire, 49, who began working on a short-term contract for PWRDF's refugee refugee, one who leaves one's native land either because of expulsion or to escape persecution. The legal problem of accepting refugees is discussed under asylum; this article considers only mass dislocations and the organizations that help refugees. desk in 1990 and later became one of two Africa/Middle East development co-ordinators, said he sees his new job "a chance to develop recent work I've done on rights-based approaches to development, while building on a strong foundation I have gained through PWRDF PWRDF Primate's World Relief and Development Fund and related work in relation to global justice and community development." |
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