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1960–2025 Rwanda
Marie Immaculée Ingabire (1961 or 1962 – 9 October 2025) was a Rwandan feminist and human rights activist, a dedicated gender and social justice advocate who spent all her career in advancing women's rights in Rwanda and in the Region. She had led Rwandan delegations and represented Rwandan in different high level forum and movement such as the Fourth World Conference on Women 1995 in Beijing and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, where she was the chairperson of the Regional Women Forum.
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We made noise, and they heard and changed it
If a person wants to give a bribe to a given official, they go through a chain of people whose network is difficult to link. For instance, a person wanted to offer bribe [via mobile money] to a prosecutor and passed it through [the phone number of] their former house servant.
I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
There is no one to challenge those in leadership; some people misappropriate State funds because there is no one caring, no follow up, money is used as they wish.”
"It is sad to see that people are more scared of police than they are of Covid-19, which kills! It seems like we have abandoned the government to fight this battle alone,"
Traffic police officers these days tell car drivers to go and pretend to urinate in a nearby place, then put the bribe where they can see so that they come and continue the journey. The Police officer goes and pick it later.
I am a gender promoter, not a feminist
.” (In Rwanda, politicians enter politics to get “bread” instead of serving citizens)
“However it is disturbing that so many of our citizens experience cases of gender-based corruption in their offices, that is why I call on all employers to immediately put in place mechanisms to prevent and punish such cases.”
It shaped me, it made me who I am today
There is a saying that many or high taxes spoil taxation. What this means is that if you ask people for taxes that are within their means, you will encourage more people to honour their duties. It is always better to increase gradually
od examples, they ignore family responsibilities and are not strict enough with their children the way parents were in the past.
If you find a man who wants to look at your phone when it's yours, or cheats on his partner, squanders the family's resources. Imagine if he drinks about two thousand a day, how much does he earn, and how much does he not have to pay for others
“If you go to RIB and ask for the data … we have it, not just in my head but in our work, and in all districts.”
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