Yesterday’s Paris court ruling is a step toward justice, but time is running out A STATEMENT BY THE AEGIS TRUST Yesterday, the Paris Court of Appeal took a significant step toward justice for the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The court overturned a dismissal granted to Agathe Habyarimana - widow of former [...]
Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Global President of the Aegis Trust’s Isōko Centre for Humanity, will be honoured with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Human Rights Award at Moment Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Awards Benefit Gala on 16 November 2025 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Nderitu, a globally respected peace negotiator and former UN Under-Secretary-General and [...]
https://youtu.be/F_IFA191_EE Parliamentarians, diplomats, academics and genocide survivors gathered in Westminster Hall last week to mark 125 years since the birth of Raphael Lemkin – the Polish-Jewish jurist whose single-minded advocacy gave the world both the word genocide and the 1948 UN Convention on its prevention and punishment. Hosted jointly on November 4th by [...]
On 26 October, 2025, His Excellency Abdisalam Abdi Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Federal Republic of Somalia, visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial to honour the memory of the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. During his visit, H.E. Abdisalam Abdi Ali toured the memorial exhibits, learning [...]
On 20 October, 2025, General Pierre Schill, Chief of Staff of the French Army, visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial to pay respects to the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Accompanied by his delegation, General Schill toured the memorial’s exhibits that trace the causes, reality, and consequences of the Genocide, as well as [...]
On 18 October, His Excellency Bassirou Diomaye Faye, President of the Republic of Senegal, visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial to pay respects to the more than one million victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Accompanied by his delegation, President Faye toured the memorial exhibits to learn more about the history of [...]
Yesterday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered a historic verdict, convicting Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman—widely known as Ali Kushayb—of 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities perpetrated in Darfur in 2003–2004. This is the ICC’s first conviction relating to the Darfur conflict and a long-awaited measure of justice for survivors. As [...]
On a crisp autumn Sunday in Nottinghamshire, this past weekend Holocaust survivors, supporters, staff, volunteers and trustees gathered at the UK National Holocaust Museum to mark an extraordinary milestone: thirty years since the doors first opened in September 1995. For those of us at the Aegis Trust, this anniversary holds profound significance – Beth Shalom, [...]
At the 2025 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, Alice Wairimu Nderitu issued a bold new commitment on behalf of the Aegis Trust: to establish the Isōko Centre for Humanity in Rwanda by December 2028. This groundbreaking Centre will serve as a global hub for peace education, strategic advocacy, and the prevention of identity-based violence, rooted in [...]
On September 20th, 2025, the Kigali Peace Ambassadors' Network (PAN), in collaboration with Aegis Trust, celebrated the International Day of Peace through the Turi Umwe Peace Festival in Kigali. The event was a powerful reminder that peace is not passive; it requires deliberate action from every individual, community, and institution. This year's UN theme, "Act [...]
