By Jeffrey Newman For me, this was the session when the Fellowship first began to ‘gel’. Partially this is the result...
Life in Hungary Under the Nazis
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René Cassin
We are a charity working to promote and protect universal human rights, drawing on Jewish experience and values.
Europe Convention on Human Rights: stay signed in.
Debora Singer MBE
My mother fled the Holocaust to the UK as a kid – refugee children today deserve better.
Debora Singer MBE
Simple Acts of Compassion: Then and Now.
Debora Singer MBE
Jewish human rights charity protests about European Convention exit threat by Tories.
85th anniversary of the Kindertransport. I owe my life to Nicholas Winton. Today I’ll be thinking of him.
Daniel Silverstone
When a photo of our mother was featured in a BBC podcast and a newspaper article, my sister and I didn’t expect it to be circulated around the world, bringing
intriguing repercussions.
Debora Singer
As she explains here, her own family history of many relatives fleeing persecution, with varying degrees of success and tragedy, informs her
current work with human rights charity René Cassin.
Debora Singer
UK Jewish human rights charity appoints new chair of trustees
Michelle Rosenberg
Fighting Hate Crime and Discrimination: The Jewish Standpoint
Learn about the takeaways from our latest session by one of our Fellows
Reflection on Session Three: Immigration Detention
by Mo Makin The topic of discussion for this session was immigration detention. Immigration always seems to be in the...
Reflections on Session Two Modern Slavery
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...
Reflections on Session One
By Claudia Hyde The 2019 René Cassin-AJA Fellowship Programme kicked off on 29 January 2019 with the inaugural...
Campaigning 101 with Barry Sheerman MP
Fellow Lauren Chaplin reflect on the programme's 6th session: Parliamentary Lobbying and Campaigning Seatbelts. Those...
Discrimination & hate crime – issues uniting Jews and Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
Fellow Talia Blank reflects on the programme’s fourth session on discrimination and hate crime – “in 2016 – 2017, 80,000 hate crimes were recorded by the Police in England and Wales”…
Asylum, refuge & detention
Samantha Linfield discusses the programme’s third session on indefinite detention, led by the Director of Detention Action.
Modern slavery is insidious
It’s in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the IT we rely on – Bella Lever reflects on the Fellowship Programme’s second session.
From Magna Carta to the 2010 Equality Act – the opening session of 2018’s Fellowship Programme
Lauren Chaplin discusses session one – introductions and a crash course on human rights with Doughty Street barrister and RightsInfo founder Adam Wagner.