Marie Louise Baricako is the president of the transnational Burundian feminist organization Mouvement Inamahoro: Women and Girls for Peace and Security. Inamahoro seeks to speak out from exile to promote human rights in Burundi, build the capacity of Burundian women in leadership, and to improve the socioeconomic conditions of Burundian refugees. Covid-19 has created hardship for marginalized populations due to disease contraction, the loss of already-precarious employment, and restrictions on movement and gathering. Inamahoro has responded to the increasingly dire situation among refugee communities by engaging in humanitarian work which includes fundraising to distribute food to refugees, providing support to child mothers and their families so that the girls can continue going to school, providing public health information related to the pandemic, and paying for funeral costs. In this chapter, Baricako reflects on her work as a women’s rights activist in exile and how she works, along with women and girls, to keep human rights and women’s rights on the agenda of decision-makers, and foster the next generation of women leaders in Burundi.

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Feminist Activism in Exile: Burundi’s Mouvement Inamahoro

  • Marie Louise Baricako,
  • Miriam J. Anderson

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Marie Louise Baricako is the president of the transnational Burundian feminist organization Mouvement Inamahoro: Women and Girls for Peace and Security. Inamahoro seeks to speak out from exile to promote human rights in Burundi, build the capacity of Burundian women in leadership, and to improve the socioeconomic conditions of Burundian refugees. Covid-19 has created hardship for marginalized populations due to disease contraction, the loss of already-precarious employment, and restrictions on movement and gathering. Inamahoro has responded to the increasingly dire situation among refugee communities by engaging in humanitarian work which includes fundraising to distribute food to refugees, providing support to child mothers and their families so that the girls can continue going to school, providing public health information related to the pandemic, and paying for funeral costs. In this chapter, Baricako reflects on her work as a women’s rights activist in exile and how she works, along with women and girls, to keep human rights and women’s rights on the agenda of decision-makers, and foster the next generation of women leaders in Burundi.