Peace-building in Rwanda: Freddy Mutanguha speaks in the UK
8 July 2012 – Genocide survivor and Director of Aegis in Rwanda, Freddy Mutanguha, has just completed a speaking tour in the UK about the Aegis Trust’s Kigali-based Peace-building Education Programme. Almost half of Rwanda’s population today is too young to remember the genocide 18 years ago – but how the country handles that legacy […]
On eve of South Sudan’s 1st anniversary, Sudanese united in London: Omar Bashir must go
6 July 2012 – In this short film released today, Aegis captures the moment the Sudanese community in the UK came together on London’s streets for the first time in a unified call for President Bashir – the only head of state in the World currently wanted for genocide – to leave office and answer […]
Sudan in crisis: take action with the Aegis Trust
The Aegis Trust invites all supporters to sign this petition and join Sudanese refugees walking at 1.30pm Saturday 30 June from Lancaster Gate to Downing Street to deliver a letter to David Cameron calling for assertive diplomatic action to secure humanitarian access to all areas of Sudan affected by conflict – particularly the Blue Nile […]
Mukesh Kapila to address Durham students re ongoing Sudan crisis
19 Jun 2012 – As head of the UN in Sudan in 2004, Dr Mukesh Kapila blew the whistle on the Darfur crisis – making it a global news story overnight – when he stated in broadcast media that the Sudanese Government was committing systematic ethnic cleansing in the region. Now Special Representative on Crimes Against […]
One year into ethnic cleansing, bold measures needed to help Sudan’s Nuba
5 June 2012 – Nuba 2012: Return to Genocide? is a short film released today by the Aegis Trust on the first anniversary of a massacre by Sudanese Government forces in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan State, which marked the start of the new wave of ethnic cleansing against the Nuba. Featuring Dr Mukesh Kapila on […]
Alarm over civilian plight in Blue Nile and South Kordofan
30 May 2012 – Even as the UN peacekeeping mission in Abyei confirms withdrawal of Sudanese troops from this disputed region, fears for the survival of civilians under Government attack in Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile are growing. Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Aegis Trust and former head of the UN in […]
Bombed, displaced, starving: rains about to cut off people of Blue Nile and South Kordofan from international aid, even if Sudan allows it in.
24 May 2012 – International agencies last week raised the alarm that conditions for refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sudan and South Sudan – already inadequate – are about to get far worse with the onset of the rainy season. For refugees in South Sudan, there remains at least the possibility of international […]
Large numbers of war crimes suspects in the UK – but no prosecutions in two years
9 May 2012 – Figures released by the UK Home Office following a Freedom Of Information request from the Yorkshire Post (see YP article here, quoting Michael McCann MP – Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention) indicate large numbers of war crimes suspects continue to reside in the UK. It is […]
Healing Broken Societies: Can development buy love and peace?
Full text of the Valedictory Address by Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Aegis Trust and Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, UK at the Fourth International Roundtable Conference at the Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai, India, “Structuring Peace: the State and Conflict Transformation: prospects and challenges […]
Aegis welcomes US Atrocities Prevention Board
23 April 2012 – The Aegis Trust warmly welcomes the US President’s announcement of the creation of an Atrocities Prevention Board, and a comprehensive strategy for the United States to make prevention of mass atrocities and genocide a key focus of US foreign policy. For analysis of this hugely significant move, see (among others): Madelaine […]