by Rene Cassin | Jul 16, 2018 | Work Experience
Georgie joined the René Cassin team for a week in July 2018. She left feeling that she’d been given the tools to engage in her own future human rights activism. I could not be more honoured to have spent the past week conducting my work experience at René...
by Rene Cassin | Jul 11, 2018 | Blogs, Stop the hostile environment
Michael Goldin calls for government reforms to an “appalling” system of immigration control. The UK’s system of detaining individuals subject to immigration control has always been appalling. The system gives rise to a litany of shameful concerns,...
by Rene Cassin | Jul 11, 2018 | Blogs, Slavery and Trafficking, Stop the hostile environment
Ben Cartwright discusses the importance of legal aid for victims of modern slavery. It has never been clear who can access legal aid; to anyone except lawyers and those working in the legal aid sector, trying to obtain free legal advice and support can be fiendishly...
by Rene Cassin | Jun 22, 2018 | Asylum and Detention, Blogs, News
On 29 April this year Home Secretary Amber Rudd resigned as a result of public anger and protests over the Windrush scandal, after it was revealed that an entire generation of people who came to the UK from the Commonwealth following the Second World War (and whose...
by Rene Cassin | Jun 22, 2018 | Asylum and Detention, Latest, Stop the hostile environment
Yuri came to the UK seeking asylum after fleeing anti-Semitic persecution. “Given Britain’s acceptance of Jewish refugees during the Second World War I thought I would be respected and supported”. That belief was shattered by his encounters with the Home Office. He...
