Fidèle Rutayisire is the Chairperson of the Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre. A lawyer by education, Fidèle is a passionate and articulate human rights activist in Rwanda. From 2000 he served as the Program officer of a Human Right organization in Rwanda (Association Rwandaise pour la defense des Droits de l`Homme, ARDHO). From 2002, he worked with the Ministry of Health as a senior legal adviser. In 2004 he joined Kigali Health Institute where he served as the senior adviser to the Vice chancellor. Late 2006, he founded the Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre (RWAMREC) to mobilize Rwandan men to support women’s leadership, to address issues of negative masculinity, gender inequality, promotion of healthy families, women’s rights and prevention of gender-based violence, thus addressing all other related consequences including HIV/ AIDS and other health issues.
He is a gender sensitive man involved in many women’s organizations in Rwanda. He is a board member of PROFEMME TWESE HAMWE an umbrella of 56 Women’s organizations in Rwanda as well as a board member of ARDHO a Rwandan Human Rights Association as well as a member of the Governing council of the East African civil society organization forum (EACSOF) as well as a member of the Africa MenEngage Network steering committee.
Fidèle Rutayisire is a Rwandan who initiated and rallied the world to sign the petition against Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Kenya during the post-election violence held in early 2008. Fidèle lectures, leads workshops and trainings and provides consultations for organizations throughout Rwanda and many other countries in Africa.
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