Mahama Refugee Camp, was established in 2015 after a civil war broke out in Burundi, which resulted into a massive influx of Burundian refugees who were granted safety and refugee status in Rwanda and settled in Mahama Refugee Camp in Kirehe District.

The camp hosts more than 60,000 Burundian refugees in a concentrated and congested camp setting which puts the total population in the camp at a very high risk of human rights violation especially women, young girls and children.

More than 60 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights without difference of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status”.