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In 2023, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee added four genocide memorial sites in Rwanda to the list of World Heritage Sites: Nyamata, Murambi, Bisesero and Gisozi, where the Kigali Genocide Memorial is located.

Marking the 31th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, UNESCO will feature the photo exhibition "Kwibuka: Rwanda 1994" on UNESCO’s fences in Paris for two months from 7 April. The exhibition explores the landscape of each of these four sites through the lens of survivors of the Genocide.

Commissioned by UNESCO, the photo exhibition was created in March 2024 by the Aegis Trust, which runs the Kigali Genocide Memorial on behalf of Rwanda’s Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement. It was first shown at UNESCO on the 30^th anniversary. 

7 April marks the beginning of the genocide perpetrated against members of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu extremist-led government. Within just over 100 days, as many as 1 million Tutsi were systematically murdered. Moderate Hutu and others who opposed the massacres were also killed during this period.

UNESCO is committed to promote education about genocides to sensitize learners for the causes, dynamics and consequences of such crimes and to strengthen their resilience against all forms of discrimination.