by Rene Cassin | Jul 1, 2019 | Blogs
By Sam Alston In an unprecedented high court case in October 2018, the Dutch government was forced to abandon plans to weaken its carbon reduction targets. The case, first of its kind, depended heavily on human rights law, particularly the right to life (article 2)...
by Rene Cassin | Jun 25, 2019 | Events, Latest, Stop the hostile environment
by Sandy Paul Speakers, from left to right: Baroness Lister, Michael Darko, Ruth Barnett, Sam Grant, Kate Green MP, Stuart McDonald MP, Rabbi Aaron Goldstein A packed Committee Room 6 in Parliament this week was powerfully reminded by Ruth Barnett, who arrived in the...
by Rene Cassin | Jun 25, 2019 | Latest, Stop the hostile environment
René Cassin’s Campaigns Officer, Hannah Swirsky, writes in Jewish News Online: In Britain each year, around 25,000 migrants and asylum seekers are routinely locked up in detention centres – often for months, sometimes for years. No trial. No redress. No knowing when...
by Rene Cassin | Jun 17, 2019 | Asylum and Detention, Latest, Stop the hostile environment
René Cassin is proud to support Refugee Week 2019 (17-23 June). Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, co-authored by our namesake Monsieur René Cassin, states that “everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from...
by Rene Cassin | May 30, 2019 | 2019 Cohort, Fellowship Programme, Sessions
By Jeffrey Newman For me, this was the session when the Fellowship first began to ‘gel’. Partially this is the result of the number of meetings and the time in the Pub, but more it was the open human approach of Marta whose warmth and personal story allowed us to...
