Africa: Great Lakes - Universities Take Part in Moot Court Competition

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Since the 1990s, the Great Lakes region has been the scene of multiple violations of international humanitarian law and human rights, including the murder of civilians (and even genocide), recruiting children as combatants, rape, looting and indiscriminate attacks. Universities are not giving students enough oppotoo few case studies have been inspired by the local situation. A non-governmental organization - Initiatives for Peace and Human Rights - in the region has started organizing an annual competition on international humanitarian law and human rights for university students from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.

In 2014, for the second year running, a regional, French-language "moot court" was held at the Kigali Independent University (Université Libre de Kigali) in partnership with other universities in the region, the ICRC, the City of Geneva and the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs.

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