Torturers not welcome in Britain’s shopping malls, but mass-murderers may be
22 Oct 09 – A coalition of peers, leading legal figures and human rights NGOs are calling on the Government to close a serious loophole in UK laws on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. At the moment, while a person suspected of torture can be arrested and tried in the UK if they are […]
Action urged at Moscow Sudan conference
6 Oct 09 – Ahead of an international conference on Sudan in Moscow today and tomorrow, 23 advocacy organisations, including the Aegis Trust, sent the following letter to foreign ministers participating in the talks: “We are writing to express our deep concern regarding the situation in Sudan, which remains violent and volatile and is in […]
Auschwitz survivor starts public talk series at Holocaust Centre
27 June 08 – On Saturday 5 July, 88-year-old Trude Levi will visit The Holocaust Centre, home of the Aegis Trust, as the first of this year’s summer weekend survivor speakers. She will take her listeners back – 64 years to the day – to the last journey she and her parents shared; five days […]
Darfur: Eyewitnesses on film implicate Sudanese Minister in war crimes ahead of ICC report to UN
4 June 08 – In a 17-minute film released today by the Aegis Trust with the support of Open Society Justice Initiative and Human Rights First, and circulated to UN diplomats on the eve of the ICC’s six-monthly report to the UN Security Council, survivors from villages attacked by Sudanese Government forces and Janjaweed militia […]
Darfuri civilians, including women, shot in Khartoum according to locals
13 May 08 – Disturbing reports received by the Aegis Trust in the past 24 hours indicate that in addition to the beatings and detention of hundreds of Darfuri civilians in Khartoum following the recent rebel attack, some Darfuri residents – including men and women – have been shot by the security services, both […]
Holocaust Centre hosts Rwandan Genocide vigil
12 Apr 08 – Survivors from Rwanda, Darfur and the Holocaust – now living in Nottingham, Derby, Coventry and other locations across the Midlands – gathered at the Holocaust Centre for an all-night vigil staged by the Aegis Trust on Saturday night, 12 April, to mark the 14th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan […]
Terrorist attack on Rwandan genocide memorial increases Aegis’ determination to tell the story
11 Apr 2008 – Shortly before 8.00pm local time on Thursday 10 April 2008, an unknown assailant threw a grenade into the gatehouse of the Kigali Memorial Centre, Rwanda’s main site of remembrance for the victims of the 1994 genocide. 7-13 April is a week of mourning marking the 14th Annivesary of the start of […]
On 1st anniversary of ICC naming Darfur War Crimes Suspects, Aegis co-founds wantedforwarcrimes.org
27 Feb 08 – Today, on the first anniversary of the ICC’s naming of Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb as suspects wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, 45 organizations throughout Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa have launched WantedForWarCrimes.org, a campaign which calls for the UN Security Council to […]
Aegis Students Join Nobel Laureates to Pressure China over Darfur
13th Feb 2008 Yesterday at a Global Day of Action, Aegis Students joined protesters around the world and a group of Nobel Peace laureates to call on Chinese President Hu Jintao, the host of the Beijing Games, to uphold Olympic ideals by pressing Sudan to stop atrocities in Darfur. In London at a ceremony supported […]
German President Visit to the Kigali Memorial Centre
6 Feb 08- The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr Horst Kohler, paid a memorable visit to the Kigali Memorial Centre today. The President’s visit allowed him to have a first-hand sense of the horrors of the past that led to the 1994 genocide in which up to one million innocent Tutsis and […]