By Jade Weiner, 2020 fellow The topic of discussion for this session was immigration detention, with Sam Grant, Policy...
Session four reflection
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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
Reflection on session 1
By Jade Weiner The 2020 René Cassin-AJA Fellowship Programme began with an exciting and inspiring introductory...
Meet the 2020 Cohort of René Cassin AJA Fellows
Meet the 2020 fellows and read their bios here
2020 Fellowship Programme
New deadline for applications: noon, Monday 18 November
Budapest – May 2019
Hungary is a country of poignant contradictions – a case study in the challenges of contemporary human rights. e learned about Jewish life and social action in Budapest, and the trip shone a spotlight on Hungary’s Roma community.
Life in Hungary Under the Nazis
By Jeffrey Newman For me, this was the session when the Fellowship first began to ‘gel’. Partially this is the result...
Fighting Hate Crime and Discrimination: The Jewish Standpoint
Learn about the takeaways from our latest session by one of our Fellows
Meet the 2019 Cohort of René Cassin AJA Fellows
We are excited to welcome our new Cohort of Fellows, read all about them here.
René Cassin AJA Fellows go to Budapest!
The trip offered our Fellows the opportunity to learn about why Hungarian society has embraced nationalism, how its ascendance has affected human rights & its impact on organised civil society.
Day One – Philosophy, history & activism
Lauren Chaplin reflects on Day One, where Fellows met with Professor Gabor Balzas, Aniko Feliz of the Tom Lantos Institute and activist and academic Eszter Susan.
Day Three – Jewish, Roma and LGBTQI intersectionality
Bella Lever is “particularly struck by the interaction and overlap” between the Jewish, LGBTQI and GRT organisations that the Fellows encounter on Day Three.
Day Four – Charity Taxi Project
Sam Alston reflects on the Fellows’ fourth day in Budapest.