by Rene Cassin | Nov 29, 2017 | Education, Events, Latest, News, Resources, Slavery and Trafficking, Stop the hostile environment
Below you can find all the resources for this year’s Human Rights Shabbat (2017). The resource aims to help you celebrate World Human Rights Day and shine a light onto modern day slavery. You can find the entire resource through this link here. Download our 2018...
by Rene Cassin | Nov 20, 2017 | Latest, News, Protecting Human Rights in the UK
René Cassin has joined together with 30 other organisations to submit evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) regarding the European Union Withdrawal Bill and our shared concerns about the human rights impacts of the Bill as it stands. We are deeply...
by Rene Cassin | Nov 13, 2017 | Blogs, Latest, News, Slavery and Trafficking, Stop the hostile environment
The fight against modern slavery: domestic progress is being undermined by international failures Ben Cartwright Domestic progress: putting victims first In this blog series, we have highlighted policy failures in the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), that led to...
by Rene Cassin | Nov 9, 2017 | Education, Human rights thought for the week, Latest, News, Resources
Welcome to the René Cassin Parashot Project. We are proud to have brought together 54 leading Jewish thinkers, Rabbis and educators from across the UK to each write a ’human rights thought for the week’, creatively connecting each portion of the Torah to a distinct...
by Rene Cassin | Nov 8, 2017 | Blogs, Education, Latest, News, Protecting Human Rights in the UK
What have Human Rights got to do with us? Today we commemorate Kristallnacht, the pogrom or night of terror aimed at Jews in Austria and Germany, incited by the Nazi state on 9th November, 1938. The violence was followed by a rounding up of Jewish men, including both...