29 Oct 07 – Vice President of the Methodist Conference Mrs Ruby Beech has praised the work of the Holocaust Centre and Aegis Trust, paying tribute to the founders and urging Methodists to visit the Holocaust Centre in greater numbers. Her comments came on Saturday during her first visit to the Holocaust Centre, accompanied by [...]
Interested in finding out how to campaign against mass murder, rape & pillage in Darfur. Want to help prevent the reoccurrence of genocide elsewhere? Aegis Students warmly invites you to attend its annual summer conference, taking place at the Cass Business School, C.London on September 5th 2007. Aegis Students is an exciting student movement that [...]
Comment by Dr James Smith, CEO Aegis Trust, 21 Aug 07 - The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently ruled on a complaint against the Save Darfur Coalition and Aegis Trust regarding how the death toll in Darfur has been represented. ASA identified a 'division of informed opinion' on the mortality in Darfur and stated [...]
Interested in finding out how to campaign against mass murder, rape & pillage in Darfur. Want to help prevent the reoccurrence of genocide elsewhere? Aegis Students warmly invites you to attend its annual summer conference, taking place at the University of Derby on September 17th 2007. Aegis Students is an exciting student movement that aims [...]
We hope you are all having a fantastic summer. The growth of Aegis Students has been immense this last year. There are now eleven functioning societies and many more in early stages of development, bringing about the need for a larger National Executive Committee to coordinate the student movement in this coming academic year. The [...]
10 May 07 - For the first time since opening, the Holocaust Centre (situated between Laxton and Ollerton, in north Notts) is running a full summer of weekend talks by survivors of Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Belsen. Every Saturday and Sunday, from now to the end of September, members of the public [...]
19 Apr 07 - Rolls Royce has informed the Aegis Trust's Darfur Divestment campaign that the company is withdrawing from Sudan. Rolls Royce was supplying diesel engines and support for Sudan’s oil sector. Booming oil revenues have helped Khartoum to finance its armed forces in Darfur and pay the Janjaweed militia, responsible for four years [...]
Gemma Tumelty was re-elected National President of the National Union of Students by over two thirds of voting delegates at NUS' annual conference. Gemma won her election in Blackpool, meaning that she will serve another year until July 2008, when she will have completed her maximum two year term. She commented- “I am absolutely delighted [...]
London (April 19th, 2007) – Rolls Royce announced yesterday their decision to withdraw from Sudan citing "increasing international humanitarian concerns". Their decision follows increasing calls for companies to divest from Sudan and exert financial pressure on as the Government of Sudan as the crisis in Darfur worsens. This news is of particular significance to Aegis [...]