By Wikipedia When Karen Shulman was hired to work in Rwanda, many of her friends and family wondered what she would do for the Jewish holidays. More than a year…
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Aegis Trust, founded in 2000, is the leading British NGO which campaigns to prevent genocide worldwide. Based at the United Kingdom’s Holocaust Centre, which opened in 1995, the Aegis Trust coordinates the UK Genocide Prevention All-Party Parliamentary Group, funds the Genocide Prevention Group (Canada) and is responsible for the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda, which commemorates the 1994 genocide and is central to education of a new generation about the dangers of ethnic division. The word Aegis means 'Shield' or 'Protection', reflecting the need to protect vulnerable people against genocide. Since late 2004, Aegis has been among the organisations at the forefront of research, campaigning and policy development in the United Kingdom's response to the Darfur crisis.
