19 Mar 13 - The Aegis Trust will take part in next week's UK launch of a report by the Task Force on the EU Prevention of Mass Atrocities. Titled 'The EU and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities - An Assessment of Strengths and Weaknesses', the report can be downloaded here. Speakers Dr James Smith, [...]
In London this Thursday, the whistleblower who first brought the region to global attention will publish his memoirs, ‘Against A Tide of Evil’; a no-holds-barred insider account of a crisis that still keeps rolling. “We knew from day one what was going on,” Kapila says in a short film introducing the book. “Hardly a day [...]
28 Feb 2013 – A coalition of politicians from three continents have called for urgent action to address the humanitarian crisis in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile. The Sudanese government is accused of intensifying indiscriminate bombings against rebel-held areas – as witnessed by former UN Sudan chief Mukesh Kapila when the Aegis Trust visited [...]
24 Jan 2013 – In Kigali, the Embassies of Sweden and the United States, in collaboration with Aegis Trust and the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP), have organized two events celebrating the centenary of the birth of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, [...]
18 Jan 2013 - Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative for the Aegis Trust and former UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, has just travelled 1000km through Sudan’s Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, where international humanitarian relief access has been blocked since armed conflict erupted there between the Sudanese Government and opposition groups in June [...]
In this video, young Rwandans talk about the value of taking part - for them and their community.“It is now 18 years after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Nearly half the country are under 15 and too young to remember directly, but they are surrounded by the fall-out of genocide’s toxic legacy,” says Dr James [...]
13 Nov 2012 – The Aegis Trust has joined over 80 prominent human rights organizations to sign an open letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) urging it to impose deadlines and consequences on the Government of Sudan in order to secure protection and humanitarian aid for displaced communities in the Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan, [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) met with Mukesh Kapila, Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester and Special Representative of the Aegis Trust on 6 November 2012
In the 7th plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) in Malta, 12-13 October 2012, Aegis' Special Representative Dr Mukesh Kapila outlined Aegis' vision for a new global parliamentary grouping dedicated to the prevention of crimes against humanity. The full text of his address follows. Mr Chairman, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen [...]
28 Sept 2012 - Outcomes of the Presidential Summit between Sudan and South Sudan announced on 27th September 2012 are an important step in reaching peace between the two neighbouring countries. The ongoing human rights catastrophe however, and its devastating humanitarian consequences in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile regions of Sudan, remain unaddressed. In [...]