by Rene Cassin | Mar 19, 2019 | Latest, Stop the hostile environment
By Bella Lever Last month, the Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report which called for a time limit on indefinite detention. One of the key reasons they list in support of a time limit is the potential for indefinite detention to ‘trigger mental illness...
by Rene Cassin | Mar 6, 2019 | Latest, News, Press releases and statements, Women's Rights
Today is International Women’s Day, a day for celebrating how far we have come in securing women’s rights, but also for thinking about all those who have been left behind. Despite Eleanor Roosevelts affirmation that human rights begin “in small places, close to home”,...
by Rene Cassin | Mar 6, 2019 | Blogs, Latest, Women's Rights
By Mia Hasenson-Gross, Executive Director of René Cassin When Minerva Bernardino from the Dominican Republic, Hansa Mehta from India and Shaista Ikramullah from Pakistan, joined Eleanor Roosevelt to ensure that the idea of women’s right to equality –...
by Rene Cassin | Mar 6, 2019 | 2019 Cohort, Sessions
By Josh Vuglar Am I not a man and a brother? From the story of the oppression of the Jews in Egypt as told in the Book of Exodus, to the brutality of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, slavery often seems something distant and remote. A horror consigned to history...
by Rene Cassin | Mar 6, 2019 | Equal Rights for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers, News
A cross denomination of Rabbis and community organisations have signed our letter to @ukhomeoffice to express our concern over discrimination and racism targeted towards Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the UK. pic.twitter.com/6Me47iBHC7— René Cassin...
