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]

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  1. ^ Urban Walker 2006, p. 107.
  2. ^ Brown 2004.
  3. ^ Huang 2012.
  4. ^ Singer 2008, p. 4.
  5. ^ Birkner 2005.
  6. ^ "What We Do". Genocide Survivors Foundation.
  7. ^ NYU 2011.
  8. ^ Salamone 2010.
  9. ^ DoSomething.org.
  10. ^ Sambira 2013.

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