by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Nov 28, 2024 | Campaigns, Genocide, Latest
November 2024 After ten years of operations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Volkswagen is to sell its plants in Xinjiang and end its complicity with Uyghur forced labour and abuses committed against the Uyghurs and other Turkic groups. Earlier this year, new...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jul 24, 2024 | Work Experience
Lucy Conway, work experience student, July 2024 I have always had an interest in human rights and I am looking to study a politics degree at university, which is what strived my original desire to do work experience with René Cassin. I was recommended this opportunity...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jul 1, 2024 | Work Experience
By Aria Nesheim, work experience student, June 2024 As someone who has always been very politically aware, having read the news regularly and been up to date on the latest events in parliament, I was aware of human rights issues within the UK, and I knew I wanted to...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Oct 5, 2023 | Protecting Human Rights in the UK
Executive summary Human rights instruments were developed in response to the Holocaust. Human rights protect the liberty of the individual from the power of the state. The European Convention on Human Rights was written by a Conservative and championed by Churchill....
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Sep 11, 2023 | Human Rights Ambassador Programme, Right to Food
by Roxana Isaacs, René Cassin Youth Ambassador 2023 “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family” (Article 25, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948) Food insecurity has impeded...