Holocaust Memorial Day - 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp - is observed in the UK each year as a day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust and other instances of genocide. This year, Dr Mukesh Kapila - the Aegis Trust’s Special Representative on Crimes Against Humanity and [...]
On November 12, 2015, leading officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial and paid their respects to the more than one million victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi. The visit is part of a series of events honouring the victims of the Genocide and marking the completion [...]
Rwandan survivors yesterday gathered at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in the country’s capital, where some 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi lie buried, to commemorate a genocide which took place two decades ago on another continent - in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in July 1995. Coming together on the eve of the official [...]
The first ever Ubumuntu Arts festival, a two-day event at the Amphitheatre of the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, starts tomorrow - with participants drawn from Rwanda and another dozen countries around the World. Inspired by and created for the sake of humanity, the festival slogan is, “I am because you are, you are because [...]
Since December 2013, South Sudan’s civil war has left 50,000 people dead and driven 1.5 million from their homes – so far with little sign of an end in sight. There are, however, some glimmers of hope for the future; elements among South Sudanese civil society who believe important foundations for long term peace can [...]
Rwanda’s Ministry of Education last week commenced training its teacher trainers in delivery of the peace education component of the new national Schools Curriculum. The brainchild of the team at the Aegis-led Rwanda Peace Education Programme (RPEP), this has been developed in close collaboration with the Rwanda Education Board (REB) and sees peace education integrated [...]
This week marks the 21st Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi. It is an important time to remember the victims, support survivors and ensure never again is a reality. Collecting testimonies, preserving evidence and enabling research and learning about the genocide contributes to our duty to remember. In this effort, Rwanda’s National Commission for [...]
Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, together with Minister for Development Cooperation Alexander De Croo, yesterday concluded two days in Rwanda with a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial. During a tour of the Genocide Archive Rwanda at the Memorial with Yves Kamuronsi, the Aegis Trust’s Deputy Director in Rwanda, Reynders viewed [...]
A two-day “Global Peace Builders Conference” organised by Faith-based organisations, the Aegis Trust, Rwanda Youth Action Network and Rwanda Civil Society Platform brought together religious leaders from the Central African Republic and youth leaders from South Sudan, as well as Rwandan peace builders, in Kigali over the 7th and 8th of August. The delegation from [...]
LawsonThe Prime Minister of Norway visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial on 3 July whilst in Rwanda as part of a regional visit to South Africa and Malawi to promote education and equal access to education for boys and girls. Together with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Prime Minister Solberg co-chairs the United Nations Millennium [...]
