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 [...]
13 May 08 - Disturbing reports received by the Aegis Trust in the past 24 hours indicate that in addition to the beatings and detention of hundreds of Darfuri civilians in Khartoum following the recent rebel attack, some Darfuri residents – including men and women – have been shot by the security services, both [...]
12 Apr 08 – Survivors from Rwanda, Darfur and the Holocaust – now living in Nottingham, Derby, Coventry and other locations across the Midlands – gathered at the Holocaust Centre for an all-night vigil staged by the Aegis Trust on Saturday night, 12 April, to mark the 14th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan [...]
11 Apr 2008 - Shortly before 8.00pm local time on Thursday 10 April 2008, an unknown assailant threw a grenade into the gatehouse of the Kigali Memorial Centre, Rwanda's main site of remembrance for the victims of the 1994 genocide. 7-13 April is a week of mourning marking the 14th Annivesary of the start of [...]
27 Feb 08 - Today, on the first anniversary of the ICC's naming of Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb as suspects wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, 45 organizations throughout Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa have launched WantedForWarCrimes.org, a campaign which calls for the UN Security Council to [...]