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UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide holds media workshop with Aegis at Kigali Genocide Memorial
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UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide holds media workshop with Aegis at Kigali Genocide Memorial

UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide holds media workshop with Aegis at Kigali Genocide Memorial

David Brown2024-07-26T09:40:24+01:00July 26th, 2024|Uncategorised|

Media stakeholders including journalists highlight their role in immediate efforts countering hate speech, urge policy support to address it (Kigali, Rwanda, 23-25 July 2024) Media stakeholders, including as journalists, editors, content creators, fact checkers, as well as watchdogs, can contribute to the dangerous spread and impact of hate speech, but also to addressing and countering [...]

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Aegis hosts international peacebuilding conference in Rwanda
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Aegis hosts international peacebuilding conference in Rwanda

Aegis hosts international peacebuilding conference in Rwanda

David Brown2024-07-26T09:24:36+01:00July 4th, 2024|Outreach|

In Kigali from 25th to 28th July, the Aegis Trust will host ‘Listening and Leading: the Art and Science of Peace, Resilience and Transformational Justice’. Registration for the conference is filling rapidly, but places are still available at event.aegistrust.org. The conference will be held at the Kigali Genocide Memorial (run by Aegis on behalf of Rwanda’s [...]

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Aegis welcomes UNGA resolution for Srebrenica genocide remembrance
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Aegis welcomes UNGA resolution for Srebrenica genocide remembrance

Aegis welcomes UNGA resolution for Srebrenica genocide remembrance

David Brown2024-05-24T13:18:32+01:00May 24th, 2024|Policy & Advocacy, Uncategorised|

The Aegis Trust welcomes the adoption on 23 May of the UNGA resolution commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and declaring 11 July as the International Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. Adopted with 84 votes in favour, 19 against, and 68 abstentions, the resolution designates the 11th of July as the International Day [...]

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How Memory of Genocide Builds Peace
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How Memory of Genocide Builds Peace

How Memory of Genocide Builds Peace

David Brown2024-05-08T14:57:10+01:00May 7th, 2024|Memorial|

In this comment piece, Aegis Trust Founder and Deputy Chair Dr James Smith reflects on ways in which the memory of the Genocide against the Tutsi is helping to build peace through the Kigali Genocide Memorial and beyond. On 7 April 2024 – the 30th anniversary of the start of Rwanda’s Genocide against the Tutsi [...]

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Kwibuka 30 – exhibitions around the World
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Kwibuka 30 – exhibitions around the World

Kwibuka 30 – exhibitions around the World

David Brown2024-10-09T16:41:00+01:00April 30th, 2024|Outreach|

For Kwibuka 30 - the 30th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi - the Aegis Trust worked in partnership with others to produce mobile exhibitions displayed at the UN headquarters in New York, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, at the EU foreign ministry in Brussels and at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. [...]

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Speech: Aegis CEO addresses Lithuanian Kwibuka30 commemoration
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Speech: Aegis CEO addresses Lithuanian Kwibuka30 commemoration

Speech: Aegis CEO addresses Lithuanian Kwibuka30 commemoration

David Brown2024-10-10T16:52:44+01:00April 26th, 2024|Speeches|

On 25 April, Aegis CEO Freddy Mutanguha spoke via video at the Kwibuka 30 event held in Vilnius, Lithuania, to commemorate 30 years since the Genocide against the Tutsi. Opening with thanks to the Rwandan Ambassador in Lithuania, the Head of Global Affairs at the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry and the DG of the Genocide and [...]

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Speech: the shared roots and patterns of genocidal ideologies
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Speech: the shared roots and patterns of genocidal ideologies

Speech: the shared roots and patterns of genocidal ideologies

David Brown2024-10-10T13:11:14+01:00April 26th, 2024|Speeches|

Addressing a Kwibuka 30 event at the FCDO in London on 25 April 2024 marking 30 years since the Genocide against the Tutsi, Aegis Founder Dr James Smith explored the nature and enduring impact of the roots it shares with the Holocaust. Tracing contemporary genocidal ideologies to 19th and early 20th-century racial theories, Smith noted [...]

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Aegis Trust supports UNGA Srebrenica Genocide Resolution
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Aegis Trust supports UNGA Srebrenica Genocide Resolution

Aegis Trust supports UNGA Srebrenica Genocide Resolution

David Brown2024-04-10T11:14:26+01:00April 10th, 2024|Policy & Advocacy|

The Aegis Trust and Kigali Genocide Memorial stand with the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, peacebuilders at the P-CRC and other friends and partners calling for the adoption of the proposed UNGA Resolution on the Srebrenica Genocide. Should this resolution pass, July 11 will become the International Day of Remembrance of the Genocide in Srebrenica. “We are [...]

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Kwibuka 30 begins at Kigali Genocide Memorial
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Kwibuka 30 begins at Kigali Genocide Memorial

Kwibuka 30 begins at Kigali Genocide Memorial

David Brown2024-04-07T12:16:32+01:00April 7th, 2024|Memorial|

The start of Kwibuka 30 - the 30th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda - was marked at the Kigali Genocide Memorial this morning as the President and First Lady of Rwanda lit the flame of remembrance which will burn for the next 100 days, recalling the 100 days in 1994 in [...]

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UNESCO inaugurates Kigali Genocide Memorial as World Heritage Site
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UNESCO inaugurates Kigali Genocide Memorial as World Heritage Site

UNESCO inaugurates Kigali Genocide Memorial as World Heritage Site

David Brown2024-10-09T14:23:11+01:00April 6th, 2024|Memorial|

In a ceremony on 5 April, UNESCO formally inaugurated the Kigali Genocide Memorial as a World Heritage Site. Along with the genocide memorial sites at Bisesero, Nyamata and Murambi, the Kigali Genocide Memorial was inscribed on the World Heritage List on 20 September 2023. In ceremonies on 5 and 6 April, on the eve of [...]

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