by Sam Watson | Jul 23, 2020 | Campaigns, Genocide, Latest, Slavery and Trafficking, Stop the hostile environment
The Chinese government subjects Uyghurs to systematic forced labour. Fashion brands are complicit. Cotton and slavery – it’s happening again 84% of cotton production from China comes from the Uyghur Region20% of the world’s cotton comes from the Uyghur Region1 in 5...
by Sam Watson | Jul 10, 2020 | Genocide, Latest
On 11 July 1995 more than eight thousand men and boys were murdered, simply because of their religious identity. This was the Srebrenica Genocide – the worst atrocity on European soil since the Holocaust. As a Jewish human rights charity, we feel a particular...
by Sam Watson | Jun 30, 2020 | Campaigns, Events, Genocide
On 4 May, René Cassin and Liberal Jewish Synagogue held an Iftar of solidarity with the Muslim Uyghur community. The action was designed to remind us, that it is the responsibility of each and every one to act against the detention and persecution of the Uyghur...
by Sam Watson | Jun 14, 2020 | Asylum and Detention, Blogs, Latest, Refugee Week 2020
by Maddie Grounds and Olivia Bridge Immigration Advice Service. Immigration detention continues to embody systemic injustices, human rights abuses and shocking mistreatment towards migrants and refugees seeking to claim asylum in the UK. Despite the holding of...
by Sam Watson | Apr 27, 2020 | Events, Protecting Human Rights in the UK
Discover how our human rights safety net can help ordinary people in their everyday lives How did the Human Rights Act stop an elderly couple being sent to separate care homesHow did a 17-year-old boy change the law?How did a disabled woman get more care hours?How...
