Aegis Trust

Students mobilise in London for Sudan

22 May 13 – The student-led campaign #WeNeedToTalkAboutSudan ( weneedtotalkaboutsudan.com ) , partnered by Aegis Students , culminated on Monday this week in a mass tweet to foreign secretary William Hague and a celebration of Sudanese culture in the Wiener Library .

For one day only, visitors to the Wiener Library on London’...

Peace-building in Rwanda goes mobile

15 May 2013 – From this week, the Aegis Trust’s peace-building education programme in Rwanda will no longer be limited to the Kigali Genocide Memorial; it’s going mobile – starting in Rubavu, Rwanda’s Western Province, where it is being hosted by Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle (VGN), with support from GIZ (the German ...

Rwanda’s cycling star invites all to join charity ride from London to Paris

14 May 2013 - Speaking to a full house at Thursday night’s sold-out London charity premiere of ‘Rising from Ashes’ – the award-winning documentary about Team Rwanda, Rwanda’s national cycling squad – Olympic rider Adrien Niyonshuti told the audience he’d soon be back. He is aiming to return at the end of Aug...

Darfur whistleblower launches memoirs in Geneva

25 April 2013 - Ten years ago, British diplomat Mukesh Kapila became head of the UN in Sudan. Within a year of taking the post, he would publicly declare the Sudanese Government guilty of ethnic cleansing in Darfur.

  At the Geneva Press Club, 17.30 – 19.30 on Thursday 2 May, the whistleblower who first brought Darfur to...

USC Shoah Foundation integrates Rwandan genocide testimonies secured by Aegis

19 April 2013 – Aegis’ American partner the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education – has added a collection of testimonies of survivors and rescuers from the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide to its Visual History Archive. Holding over 52,000 filmed Holocaust survivor testimonies, this mar...