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 [...]
On 21 September 2012 (International Day of Peace), the Aegis Trust, along with 123 other Non-Government Organisations, issued a joint letter to each member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demanding that Sudan allow immediate and ongoing humanitarian access to the Blue Nile and South Kordofan – where Aegis documented evidence of war crimes [...]
8 July 2012 - Genocide survivor and Director of Aegis in Rwanda, Freddy Mutanguha, has just completed a speaking tour in the UK about the Aegis Trust's Kigali-based Peace-building Education Programme. Almost half of Rwanda's population today is too young to remember the genocide 18 years ago - but how the country handles that legacy [...]
6 July 2012 - In this short film released today, Aegis captures the moment the Sudanese community in the UK came together on London’s streets for the first time in a unified call for President Bashir – the only head of state in the World currently wanted for genocide – to leave office and answer [...]
The Aegis Trust invites all supporters to sign this petition and join Sudanese refugees walking at 1.30pm Saturday 30 June from Lancaster Gate to Downing Street to deliver a letter to David Cameron calling for assertive diplomatic action to secure humanitarian access to all areas of Sudan affected by conflict – particularly the Blue Nile [...]
19 Jun 2012 – As head of the UN in Sudan in 2004, Dr Mukesh Kapila blew the whistle on the Darfur crisis – making it a global news story overnight – when he stated in broadcast media that the Sudanese Government was committing systematic ethnic cleansing in the region. Now Special Representative on Crimes Against [...]
5 June 2012 - Nuba 2012: Return to Genocide? is a short film released today by the Aegis Trust on the first anniversary of a massacre by Sudanese Government forces in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan State, which marked the start of the new wave of ethnic cleansing against the Nuba. Featuring Dr Mukesh Kapila on [...]
30 May 2012 - Even as the UN peacekeeping mission in Abyei confirms withdrawal of Sudanese troops from this disputed region, fears for the survival of civilians under Government attack in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile are growing. Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Aegis Trust and former head of the UN in [...]
24 May 2012 - International agencies last week raised the alarm that conditions for refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sudan and South Sudan – already inadequate – are about to get far worse with the onset of the rainy season. For refugees in South Sudan, there remains at least the possibility of international [...]