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...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jun 3, 2020 | Genocide, Latest, Women's Rights
René Cassin Briefing Paper – May 2020 Close to three million Muslim Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic communities in East Turkistan, the Chinese North western region of Xinjiang, are forced to deny their religion and culture in ‘re-education’ camps set up by the...
by Mia Hasenson-Gross | Jun 1, 2020 | Events, Latest, Protecting Human Rights in the UK
René Cassin virtual roundtable, 20 May 2020 with Rebecca Hilsenrath, CEO, Equality and Human Rights Commission chaired by Daniel Silverstone (Chair of René Cassin Board of Trustees) An invitation-only roundtable discussion to consider the current challenges and...
