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Fear and prejudice here and abroad
Fear and prejudice here and abroad Gay, lesbian and bisexual asylum seekers face discrimination at every step of the...
Submission made to independent review of ODW visas
René Cassin Submission to ODW Review Overseas domestic workers in the UK are especially vulnerable to abuse, as they...
René Cassin submits evidence to review of immigration detention
René Cassin were invited to submit evidence to the the Shaw Review of Welfare in Immigration Detention. Our...
Sudan Update: Bashir Sweeps Election
Bashir Sweeps Sudanese Elections Omar al-Bashir has extended his quarter-century rule of Sudan after a dubiously run...
Expert panel: How to break the chains of modern slavery?
Breaking the Chains On the 22nd of April, René Cassin was pleased to hear from renowned experts Parosha Chandran and...
Faith leaders meet at roundtable on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Rights
Interfaith Roundtable Summary Faith leaders from a wide range of religions and denominations came together on the 15th...
Rabbis speak out after visit to detention centre
Rabbis speak out after visit to detention centre Representatives from the rabbinical social justice group Tzelem...
‘Lost Souls’ of the Detention System
'Lost Souls' of the Detention System The House of Lords debated immigration detention on the 26th of March 2015,...
Modern Slavery – breaking the chains
A René Cassin free public event on Wednesday 22 April at Berwin Leighton Paisner, London EC4R 9HA.
Slavery is not history. In the UK today there are as many as 13,000 victims. Two leading experts examine this modern scourge and what can be done to combat it.
The René Cassin ‘Human Writes’ Essay Competition
"Religion and human rights - compatible or conflicting?" Every year René Cassin runs an essay competition to get...
Immigration detention – “expensive, ineffective and unjust”
René Cassin welcomes today’s report by The Parliamentary Inquiry into the use of Immigration Detention in the UK. The...