by Rene Cassin | Sep 9, 2019 | Blogs, Latest, Protecting Human Rights in the UK
By Simone Aspis Increasingly, the government is enacting legislation and policies that have the potential to treat disabled people less favourably than their non-disabled peers. Whilst law and policy is meant in theory not to discriminate against disabled...
by Rene Cassin | Aug 30, 2019 | Blogs, Latest, Work Experience
By Mollie Gill, August 2019 Work experience student Mollie writes on the campaign to have misogyny classified as a hate crime The campaign to make misogyny a hate crime seems to originate from a CitizensUK report in 2014 where Nottingham Citizens alliance of community...
by Rene Cassin | Aug 12, 2019 | Latest, Work Experience
By Lily Compton, July 2019 Lily Compton reflects on how her work experience week has inspired her to not just observe events, but to take action to protect human rights. Originally, when signing up to do work experience with René Cassin, my initial excitement stemmed...
by Rene Cassin | Aug 12, 2019 | Latest, Work Experience
By Leah Malkinson, July 2019 Leah Malkinson explains how her work experience week was not just admin and making coffee, but rather “immersed [her] into the world of human rights activism” Prior to my week of work experience with René Cassin, along with my...
by Rene Cassin | Aug 7, 2019 | Equal Rights for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers, Latest
On Friday 2 August, members of the Jewish community stood in solidarity with members of the Roma community at the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial to mark Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, and the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the ‘Gypsy Camp’ at Auschwitz-Birkenau....