by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jul 22, 2020 | Blogs, Latest, Women's Rights
By Eva Rehse and Sandy McClure, Global Greengrants Fund UK We need to act now to protect our planet, which is facing mass biodiversity extinction and the threat of a climate crisis that will impact every being and species on Earth, putting livelihoods, homes and lives...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jun 12, 2020 | Latest, Refugee Week 2020, Tackling Hate Crime
Write to your MP! as part of Refugee Week to ask for their vote in support to amendments to the Immigration Bill on a time limit for detention. These amendments, tabled by David Davis MP, would make sure no one is detained for longer than 28 days. You can use or write...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jun 12, 2020 | Blogs, Latest, Tackling Hate Crime
By Rabbi David Mason, Muswell Hill Synagogue I was asked recently, by the Jewish human rights organisation René Cassin to give a contribution as part of an evening looking at the issue of hate speech. I was asked to look at Jewish perspectives on this issue. It would...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jun 9, 2020 | Asylum and Detention, Blogs, Latest, Refugee Week 2020
By Avital Carno Oxford Street is empty, deer graze on the lawns of east London housing estates, and joggers aren’t just joggers any more, they’re lycra-clad biohazards. Outside your local supermarket, a queue stretches around the block, with the fidgeting line of...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jun 9, 2020 | Asylum and Detention, Blogs, Latest, Refugee Week 2020
Poem by Debora Singer In 1939 Solomon flees Nazi persecution and comes to England sponsored by the kindness of strangers A Christian family who give him bed and board Subsequently, detained on the Isle of Man an enemy alien surrounded again by fences reminiscent of...
