Friday, 8 January 2010 After a long hiatus, the first trial before the ICC recommences with a clear statement: the Court must give justice to girls recruited by the militia of the accused Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for children and armed conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, took the stand [...]
10 December 2009 - We're very flattered to have been jointly nominated, with Redress, for the Liberty-JUSTICE Human Rights Awards. Both organisations have been put forward for: "For their pivotal role, through concerted lobbying, in obtaining key changes to British law relating to crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, and in obtaining justice for [...]
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children [...]
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children [...]
3 Nov 09 - Survivors of the Darfur crisis who sought refuge in the UK and are still fighting their asylum cases are celebrating yesterday’s Home Office decision to concede that their removal to Khartoum would be unsafe and that they should all be granted asylum. An Operational Guidance Note (OGN) issued by the Home [...]
23 Oct 2009 - Following concerted lobbying from a coalition of peers, leading legal figures and human rights NGOs, the Government yesterday tabled a fresh amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill that will help close a legal loophole which has in the past allowed genocide and war crimes suspects to visit the UK or [...]
22 Oct 09 - A coalition of peers, leading legal figures and human rights NGOs are calling on the Government to close a serious loophole in UK laws on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. At the moment, while a person suspected of torture can be arrested and tried in the UK if they are [...]
6 Oct 09 - Ahead of an international conference on Sudan in Moscow today and tomorrow, 23 advocacy organisations, including the Aegis Trust, sent the following letter to foreign ministers participating in the talks: "We are writing to express our deep concern regarding the situation in Sudan, which remains violent and volatile and is in [...]
27 June 08 - On Saturday 5 July, 88-year-old Trude Levi will visit The Holocaust Centre, home of the Aegis Trust, as the first of this year’s summer weekend survivor speakers. She will take her listeners back - 64 years to the day - to the last journey she and her parents shared; five days [...]
4 June 08 – In a 17-minute film released today by the Aegis Trust with the support of Open Society Justice Initiative and Human Rights First, and circulated to UN diplomats on the eve of the ICC’s six-monthly report to the UN Security Council, survivors from villages attacked by Sudanese Government forces and Janjaweed militia [...]