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Great Lakes


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Selected full-text documents (for more, search in the Digital Library)
- Action Aid, Understanding the Great Lakes crisis: an international conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, 30 November to 2 December 1996 (1996)
- Lautze, Sue, Strategic humanitarian coordination in the Great Lakes Region 1996-1997: An independent standard for the inter agency standing committee (1998)
- Sangara, B. Aime, Understanding the present conflict in Rwanda: a look at some key factors which contributed to the outbreak of the genocide (1994)

Selected web-based information resources (for more, search in the Web Catalogue)
- The international response to conflict and genocide: lessons from the Rwanda experience (Danida)
- The future of the African Great Lakes region (Journal of Humanitarian Assistance)
- Réseau documentaire international sur la région des Grands Lacs Africains (Réseau Grands Lacs Africains)

Contact details for organizations based in Eastern Africa (for more, search in the Organizations Directory)
- Association Africaine de défense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO)
- Centre des Droits de l'Homme et du droit humanitaire (CDH)
- Collectif des Ligues et Associations de Défense des Droits de l'Homme au Rwanda (CLADHO)
- Ligue des Droits de la Personne dans la Région des Grands Lacs (LDGL)

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