Jacqueline Murekatete

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, she was granted asylum in 1995 in the US, where she was brought up by her uncle. Murekatete began to tell her story after David Gewirtzman, a survivor of The Holocaust, spoke of his experiences at her school.

Murekatete's nonprofit, Genocide Survivors Foundation educates people about Genocide and other mass atrocity crimes, and raises funds to support genocide survivors.

Murekatete was honoured by New York University in 2011 with the Distinguished Young Alumna Award, and she was one of the grant recipients and award winner of the 2010 VH1 Do Something Awards. She is also a recipient of the Global Peace and Tolerance Award from the United Nations.