Espérance Nyirasafari

Espérance Nyirasafari

Espérance Nyirasafari is a lawyer and politician in Rwanda, who serves as one of two Vice Presidents of the Senate of Rwanda, effective 17 October 2019. She was appointed to the Senate by the President of Rwanda, on 22 September 2019.

Before that, she served as the cabinet minister at the Ministry of Sports and Culture, from 18 October 2018, until 22 September 2019. Prior to that, from 5 October 2016 until 18 October 2018, she was the Minister of Gender and Family Promotion (Migeprof).

Quotes

• WHAT WE SOW IN OUR CHILDREN AS A FAMILY IS WHAT WE REAP AS A NATION
  • [NYIRASAFARI] MIGEPROF

• If anything, this pandemic has demonstrated that complacence is never a good thing. As Rwanda Parliament, and the country as whole, which we have witnessed in the past 27 years since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, the world community has to be ready to change and adapt.
  • [|Assembly speech ] Inter parliament union (June 2021)
• The prevailing situation of women across the continent includes economic exclusion, low level of representation in decision-making organs; sexual and gender based violence, poor access to justice, school dropouts, cultural norms, among others.
  • [|Opening remarks] sonke news (May 25, 2018)

• The engagement of men and boys for gender equality and women’s rights promotion is really fundamental and needed. We need men to challenge gender stereotypes, to share equitably in family and household responsibilities, to be positive role models in their communities and their families.
  • [|Opening Remarks ] sonke news (May 25, 2018)

• responsible and positive parenting is key to stable families and nations; “we cannot talk about sustainable development of our country when we still have unstable families, whereby children rights are not observed and protected.
  • [|Minister Nyirasafari] MIGEPROF