UK Holocaust Education needs Investment 16 Apr 07 - Serious concerns have been raised internationally about the state of Holocaust education in the UK in the wake of media stories following publication of a DfES-funded report, 'Teaching Emotive and Controversial History'. The report, published by the Historical Association, found that some teachers had dropped the [...]
7 Feb 07 - Professor Eric Markusen, one of the world’s most eminent genocide scholars, died of cancer on Monday 29 January. He was 60 years old. In recent years, Professor Markusen had worked closely with the Aegis Trust. He participated in the joint Aegis-Foreign and Commonwealth Office conference on genocide prevention in 2002, which [...]
Due to the posts on the Aegis Students Website Forum being made only by one member and over 800 active members being registered on our facebook forum instead, I presented to conference on the 11th January that that forum be closed and the official forum become our facebook forum. It was unanimously agreed that this [...]
Making a Gift in Your Will - Would you like to make a lasting contribution to humanity and the world we live in? - Would you like to ensure that future generations learn the lessons of the Holocaust and the genocides in Rwanda and elsewhere, and say “Never Again” with understanding and commitment? - Would you like [...]
A quarterly Aegis Update (Volume 1 Issue 1, May 06) is available for download or on hard copy. This provides latest news from Aegis Trust Education Department. To Download Click Here Please request for Aegis Update (Volume 1 Issue 2, June 07) by emailing chantelle.lee@aegistrust.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need [...]
Speech by Cherie Blair, Aegis Lunch, House of Commons, 20 April 2006 It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this lunch today which aims to highlight the challenging and ground-breaking work undertaken by the Aegis Trust, both here in the UK and in Africa. As I am sure many of you are [...]
20 Apr 06 - The Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Blair, today spoke at an Aegis Trust lunch at the House of Commons titled, 'How does a Nation live after Genocide?'. Click here to read Cherie Blair's speech. Speaking to a gathering of genocide survivors, dipomats, MPs, business leaders, civil servants and teachers, Cherie Blair said: [...]
20 April 2006, House of Commons It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this lunch today which aims to highlight the challenging and ground-breaking work undertaken by the Aegis Trust, both here in the UK and in Africa. As I am sure many of you are already aware, Aegis is a [...]
31 Mar 06 - Holocaust survivors last week praised ‘Shooting Dogs’, the new BBC feature film set in the Rwandan genocide, after joining the stars to view it at the UK Premiere. (Pictured, left to right: Beatha Uwazaninka, Rwandan genocide survivor; Trude Levi, Auschwitz survivor; Actor John Hurt, star of ‘Shooting Dogs’.) "It was incredibly [...]