Hain gets behind Darfur Divestment campaign
17 June 07 - At 5pm Tuesday 19 June, Labour deputy leadership candidate Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, will address a public meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention, called to discuss targeted divestment and sanctions on over the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Darfur. Massive investments by companies The [...]
International Divestment Campaign Launched Today
8 June 07 Could you be indirectly financing the genocide in Darfur? That’s quite a sobering thought. It’s also a distinct possibility. Today, Aegis Trust and partners launch an international campaign for the divestment of funds, including your pension and your savings, that are invested in foreign companies whose [...]
News from Derby University – May 2007
Derby Society Wins Awards Derby Aegis Society was nominated for 6 awards at the University of Derby Students' Union Awards ball on the 26th April 2007 for its contribution to student activities within the university over the past academic year. We scooped up 3 awards on the night for ‘most charitable club or society’, ‘outstanding [...]
Survivors to speak every weekend at Holocaust Centre
10 May 07 - For the first time since opening, the Holocaust Centre (situated between Laxton and Ollerton, in north Notts) is running a full summer of weekend talks by survivors of Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Belsen. Every Saturday and Sunday, from now to the end of September, members of the public [...]
Derby Society Wins Awards
Derby Aegis Society was nominated for 6 awards at the University of Derby Students' Union Awards ball on the 26th April 2007 for its contribution to student activities within the university over the past academic year. We scooped up 3 awards on the night for ‘most charitable club or society’, ‘outstanding achievement’ and ‘most valuable [...]
Aegis welcomes Rolls Royce decision to withdraw from Sudan
19 Apr 07 - Rolls Royce has informed the Aegis Trust's Darfur Divestment campaign that the company is withdrawing from Sudan. Rolls Royce was supplying diesel engines and support for Sudan’s oil sector. Booming oil revenues have helped Khartoum to finance its armed forces in Darfur and pay the Janjaweed militia, responsible for four years [...]
Gemma Tumelty re-elected National President of NUS
Gemma Tumelty was re-elected National President of the National Union of Students by over two thirds of voting delegates at NUS' annual conference. Gemma won her election in Blackpool, meaning that she will serve another year until July 2008, when she will have completed her maximum two year term. She commented- “I am absolutely delighted [...]
Rolls Royce pulls out of Sudan citing Humanitarian Concerns
London (April 19th, 2007) – Rolls Royce announced yesterday their decision to withdraw from Sudan citing "increasing international humanitarian concerns". Their decision follows increasing calls for companies to divest from Sudan and exert financial pressure on as the Government of Sudan as the crisis in Darfur worsens. This news is of particular significance to Aegis [...]
Survivors bury loved ones 13 years on
14 Apr 07 - Today survivors buried 1,454 victims of the Rwandan genocide in mass graves at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. The burials followed Rwanda’s official week of mourning marking the 13th anniversary of the 1994 genocide. Thousands of mourners marched in quiet procession from St. Famille Church and other areas of central Kigali to [...]