Marie Immaculée Ingabire

Marie Immaculée Ingabire in 2021

Marie Immaculée Ingabire is a Rwandan feminist and human rights activist, a dedicated gender and social justice advocate who has spent all her career in advancing women's rights in Rwanda and in the Region. She has 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.^[1]

She has been at the forefront of establishing many women lead organizations such as PROFEMME TWESE HAMWE, HAGURUKA, and Rwanda Women Network and is currently the chair person of the Rwandan National chapter of Transparency International^[2] where she is working in the prevention and reporting corruption.

Career

She was a journalist at the Office Rwandaise de l’information. She is currently the chairperson of Transparency International Rwanda.^[3]

Awards

Under her leadership, Transparency International Rwanda was voted best organisation to come up with initiatives that promote good governance in the country in 2012, an award issued by the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB).^[4]

External links

• Ingabire Immaculée yavuze ko hari ingo zirutwa na gereza. Article by Ernest Nsanzimana from 8 January 2018 at umuryango.rw

References

1. ICGLR opens a Planning Meeting to Implement Kampala Declaration of Heads of States and Governments. Press release on the website of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region from 19 March 2012.
2. Stakeholders urged to take lead in challenging harmful social norms. Article by Donah Mbabazi from 21 January 2018 in The New Times
3. The Board of Directors of Transparency International Rwanda
4. Transparency Rwanda wins governance award. Article by Susan Babijja from 6 June 2012 in The New Times