SUMMARY:In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party is facing criticism for its new migration deal with Rwanda. As part of a new resettlement scheme, migrants who arrive illegally on British shores would be flown 4,000 miles away to Rwanda for resettling.Zoe Gardner of the Joint Council for Welfare of Immigrants, an organization among those representing deportees, joins Amna Nawaz to discuss.
SUMMARY:Getting medical supplies to where they are needed fast can mean the difference between life and death outcomes, but moving them efficiently across long distances to remote and rural areas can be difficult for traditional transportation. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Rwanda on how one innovative company is leveraging new technology to accelerate these critical deliveries.
SUMMARY:April marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, in which upwards of 800,000 people were killed in 100 days, leaving 95,000 children orphaned. The massacre wiped out 75 percent of the Tutsi ethnic group. Now three young men affected by the violence have turned to photography to document their country’s resilience. Special correspondent Beth Murphy of the Groundtruth Project reports.
SUMMARY: The first all-female college in Rwanda is making strides in empowering women from all backgrounds to become the nation’s next business leaders, part of an effort to leave behind an image of a violent country, wracked by genocide. At the Akilah Institute, students prepare for well-paying jobs and financial independence and learn gender equality. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
Fred de Sam Lazaro (NewsHour): But the statistic that makes this country unique in the world reflects the role of women in all of this. Half of this country’s Supreme Court justices are female, and so are two-thirds of its members of parliament.
SUMMARY: In France, a wife-and-husband team has found their life's work in helping to prosecute war crimes from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Through their organization, Alain and Dafroza Gauthier provide investigative research in hopes of bringing war criminals to justice. Special correspondent Jonathan Silvers reports.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM (NewsHour): The discovery of mass graves or other evidence of war crimes poses several challenges, chief among them, bringing the alleged war criminals to court.
According to former United States Justice Department official Allan Ryan, the recent introduction of what's known as universal jurisdiction has made it easier to prosecute these suspected war criminals.
ALLAN RYAN, Former Attorney, U.S. Justice Department:Universal jurisdiction is not a universal concept yet. It allows trials to be held where otherwise they might not be.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: In France, universal jurisdiction has made it possible for a husband and wife to pursue alleged war criminals behind the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Special correspondent Jonathan Silvers has that story.
JONATHAN SILVERS, special correspondent:For the past 15 years, Dafroza Gauthier has risen at first light to probe the Rwandan genocide and track down fugitive perpetrators, notably the slaughter's architects and executioners.
Gauthier was born and raised in Rwanda and, until recently, worked in the chemical industry. But she has become a formidable war crimes investigator, by necessity.
DAFROZA GATHER, Rwandan Genocide Investigator (through translator): We began by collecting information and testimony from our close friends and families. But the more we heard their stories, the more we knew that something had to be done.
JONATHAN SILVERS: Dafroza Gauthier has only one memento of her family, this photo of her mother, who was murdered along with scores of relatives in the spring of 1994. Gauthier was living in Belgium when the genocide began, and she learned about her family members' demise in real time, via a series of phone calls to her native village in Rwanda.
The violence was rooted in longstanding ethnic division between the governing Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority. In the space of 100 days, roughly 800,000 men, women, and children were killed, mostly ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutus.
DAFROZA GAUTHIER (through translator):One day, people should ask the question why the world abandoned the Tutsis in Rwanda. There are nation, states, politicians who should ask forgiveness of the Rwandan people.
SUMMARY: There’s still no vaccine and no cure, but the medical community is increasingly focused on ambitious plans to bring about an end to HIV/AIDS. The NewsHour launches its series, “The End of AIDS?” with a look at intense prevention efforts underway in one of the cities most impacted by the epidemic, San Francisco. William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): Now we kick off a special series about efforts to try to end the AIDS epidemic.
Leaders and researchers from around the globe will be meeting at the International AIDS Conference in South Africa next week. One major focus: How to stop the epidemic.
But with no vaccine or cure in sight, how likely is that? This week, we’re looking at efforts around the world.
We start in San Francisco, where we have followed people for the past six months.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM (NewsHour): San Francisco’s gay pride events went off this summer like they usually do, loud and colorful and celebratory.
But there’s additional reason to celebrate. San Francisco, one of the cities where the AIDS epidemic first emerged, and one that suffered terribly from it, has now launched the country’s most ambitious campaign to control it.
It’s called, “Getting to Zero.”
Luis Canales is a living example of that campaign. Canales is HIV-positive. He got infected having unprotected sex with another man three years ago. But — and this is one of the linchpins of San Francisco’s effort — Canales was tested and then started on HIV treatment immediately after diagnosis.
LUIS CANALES (AIDS victim): Yes, right away. And I think it was the next day, I came in and started my meds.
DR. STEVEN DEEKS, University of California, San Francisco: That, as a physician, is my goal: To keep people on therapy for their own good.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Steven Deeks is Canales’ doctor.
DR. STEVEN DEEKS: Luis, how you doing?
LUIS CANALES: Pretty good.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: This approach is called RAPID.
And Deeks says, the sooner the virus can be stopped with antiretroviral drugs, the better. But it’s not just for the patient.
DR. STEVEN DEEKS: From a public health perspective — and I think this is what’s really driving a lot of interest in the RAPID program — someone’s on therapy, they can’t pass the virus to other people.
SUMMARY: The epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in America is Atlanta and the southeast, and among the hardest hit populations are gay and bisexual black men. According to the CDC, half of them will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes if current trends continue. William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in the second part of the NewsHour’s “The End of AIDS?” series.
COMMENT: For Atlanta, the problem is based on - you're black and in a fundamentalist Bible-belt. It IS predjustice.
SUMMARY: Nearly one in 10 Americans living with HIV live in New York, where an ambitious plan aims to cut new infections and HIV-related deaths. But it has serious challenges, including keeping people on their meds, and stopping the spread among IV drug users. William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in the third installment of our “The End of AIDS?” series.
SUMMARY: Rwanda emerged from its 1994 genocide to build one of the most successful AIDS responses in Africa and is working mightily to halt mother-to-child HIV transmissions. They’ve done it with a mix of science, technology and “aggressive neighborliness.” William Brangham reports with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for the fourth part of our series, “The End of AIDS?”
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