by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Sep 22, 2020 | Events, Genocide, Latest
‘How can Jewish experience and principles inform the prevention of genocide today?’ Update 2 December 2020: Human Rights Shabbat Resource Pack now available Over the past few months, the Jewish community and the world have been moved and troubled by issues of...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Sep 15, 2020 | Blogs, Latest, Slavery and Trafficking, Stop the hostile environment, Women's Rights
By Lesley Urbach, René Cassin Fellow At the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century Jewish European women were trafficked across international borders to be sold into sex slavery. Today, this would fall under the banner of human trafficking. Poverty...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Aug 21, 2020 | Blogs, Slavery and Trafficking, Stop the hostile environment
By Claudia Hyde, René Cassin alumni “Remember that you were once slaves in the land of Egypt” Deuteronomy 15:15 Slavery is central to the Jewish experience. We speak on Pesach of our ancestors, enslaved in the land of Egypt. In fifteenth-century Spain, Jews attempting...
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...
