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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
29 March 2012 - "The current upsurge in fighting along the disputed Sudan/South Sudan border is just a symptom of the serious and deep-rooted underlying malaise,” Dr Mukesh Kapila commented in a statement issued today. Aegis Special Representative on Crimes Against Humanity, Dr Kapila was UN Resident Coordinator in Sudan from 2003 to 2004. “The [...]
16 Jan 2012 - Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Advisor to the Aegis Trust and former UN Resident Coordinator in Sudan, was blocked from visiting refugee camps in eastern Chad last week and then expelled by the Chadian authorities before he could get the chance to meet even one of the nearly 300,000 Darfuri refugees still [...]
16 Mar 11 - A Peruvian man, who has not been named, was arrested in Devon yesterday on suspicion of involvement in torture and crimes against humanity committed by government-backed death squads targeting guerrilla groups in Peru in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is the first person to be arrested since loopholes [...]
8 Mar 2011 - Following media reports that African mercenaries were used to suppress demonstrations in Libya, and particularly since the Sudanese Government claimed that Darfuri rebels were involved in the violence, fears have been growing among Darfuris in the UK for family and friends in the country. An estimated 500,000 Sudanese live in Libya, [...]
11 Jan 2011 - In today's Foreign Policy magazine the Aegis Trust and Frontier Economics write about their report The Cost of a Future Conflict in Sudan. Even as Southern Sudan votes in an independence referendum this week, the fear of war hasn't entirely faded away. The south is likely to vote to secede from [...]
9 Sep 2010 - Foreign Policy Article by the Aegis Trust's Head of Campaigns Nick Donovan The film Marathon Man is one of the great paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, infamous for the scene in which the Nazi dentist played by Lawrence Olivier drills through Dustin Hoffman's teeth into his live nerve below, repeatedly asking "Is it [...]