This year Aegis Students is screening the powerful film “The Devil Came on Horseback” to thousands of students and other groups. We aim to reach over 40 locations and have received significant levels of interest; we are inviting all interested groups to screen the film. Award winning documentary film The Devil Came On Horseback exposes [...]
Kenya violence likely to escalate in absence of talks 3 Jan 08 – The Aegis Trust is deeply concerned at the violence being perpetrated in Kenya in the wake of the disputed presidential election. Men, women and children have been raped, burned alive, shot, or hacked to death with machetes. Hundreds of people have been [...]
2 Dec 07 – Chiwetel Ejiofor and Clare-Hope Ashitey were among the stars joining Mia Farrow on Sunday night when she launched the Aegis Trust’s Fund4Darfur. Singer Annie Lennox has also lent support, providing a track from her new album to be used in a short film promoting the Fund. A new initiative from the [...]
5 Oct 07 – Activists and Darfuri survivors of ethnic cleansing rallied outside Parliament on 4th October to demand the Home Office put an immediate stop to the removal of Darfuri Africans to Khartoum. The demonstration, organised by Aegis Students in conjunction with the Darfur Union, coincided with a hearing by the House of Lords [...]
21 Sept 07 - 26-year-old Darfuri survivor, Abdo Yahya Abdullah, yesterday received a standing ovation from the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton following his speech to delegates about personal tragedy and loss in Darfur and the continued suffering Darfuri asylum seekers face in the UK. Abdo urged Britain’s third largest political party to back a conference [...]
Day for Darfur IV, London 16 Sept 2007: photo galleries {mosloadposition user10} Over a thousand demonstrators gathered on Sunday 16 September outside the Sudanese Embassy before marching on Downing Street as part of a global day of action for Darfur. They were there to warn that a recent Security Council resolution has left some in [...]
17 June 07 - At 5pm Tuesday 19 June, Labour deputy leadership candidate Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, will address a public meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention, called to discuss targeted divestment and sanctions on over the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Darfur. Massive investments by companies The [...]
8 June 07 Could you be indirectly financing the genocide in Darfur? That’s quite a sobering thought. It’s also a distinct possibility. Today, Aegis Trust and partners launch an international campaign for the divestment of funds, including your pension and your savings, that are invested in foreign companies whose [...]
29 Mar 07 - Following removal by the Home Office to Khartoum on 5 February 2007, Sadiq Adam Osman – a survivor of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, who had previously been interviewed about his experiences by the Aegis Trust, and had taken part in demonstrations in London about the Darfur crisis – was brutally tortured [...]