{"id":35925,"date":"2017-09-27T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ipeace-trains-30-women-in-legal-affairs\/"},"modified":"2017-09-27T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:24:56","slug":"ipeace-trains-30-women-in-legal-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ipeace-trains-30-women-in-legal-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"iPeace trains 30 women in legal affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The training that took place in Huye District on Tuesday was organized as a follow up of the findings of a report by iPeace showing that land issues, child protection and family disputes are the top three issues that Rwandans in these five districts face. <\/p>\n

Speaking on behalf of Huye District mayor, the advisor to the mayor, Joseph Kagabo commended iPeace’s legal aid to population saying that access to justice is fundamental for the protection of citizens’ rights. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat is one of the top items on the agenda of the District. I would like to request participants to take advantage of the training provided and to use the knowledge and skills in preventing disputes not only in families but also in neighbors\u201d he said<\/p>\n

The Country Director of iPeacePaulinMuhozi, commended HuyeDistrict and other to facilitateiPeace\u2019sprogramme in providing the legal support to the people. <\/p>\n

He emphasized that it is this kind of support that allowed iPeace to complete more than 82% of all cases they handled. <\/p>\n

He also added that iPeace is discussing with Northern Province districts to expand their programmes from there.<\/p>\n

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“I am very happy to take part to this training. I was not aware about many things in the new family Law. For instance, I did not know that the law compels people to declare the deaths of their relatives. This is something that I will have to tell people in my village,” said Nyiranzeyimana, one of the participants<\/p>\n

For Uwizeyimana, it was amazing to see how the government of Rwanda protects children\u2019s rights. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wish such trainings were offered regularly at the grassroots level to inform the whole Rwandan community about some key provisions protecting the child such as the prohibition to give to a child a name bearing characteristics that dishonor him\/her such as abuse, immorality, ridiculing or slandering\u201d she said<\/p>\n

Initiatives for Peace and Human Rights (iPeace) is a Rwanda-based organization that strives the enhance the culture of peace in the Great Lakes region through human rights and good governance education.<\/p>\n

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Initiatives for Peace and Human Rights (iPeace) has trained 30 women including members of National Women Councils from Gisagara, Huye, Nyamagabe, Nyanza, and Nyaruguru districts in a bid to empower them with legal knowledge and skills to address family disputes, child protection and land issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35925"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35925"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}