Recent reporting from numerous NGOs and activist groups has revealed the systematic use of violence against migrants...
The EU must accept responsibility for the use of violence towards refugees and asylum seekers at Europe’s borders
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René Cassin
We are a charity working to promote and protect universal human rights, drawing on Jewish experience and values.
Active Remembering: Urgent Significance of Offshore Detention of Jewish Refugees
By Stav Salpeter, Ambassador, René Cassin The Home Office caused an uproar when it announced its plans to reinstate a...
The New Plan for Immigration: what is it and why is it so harmful?
By Michael Goldin, immigration lawyer and René Cassin detention volunteers group coordinator Earlier this year the...
Life in Wire: Jewish Women and the British Detention System
By Edie Martin, Intern, René Cassin The view of Port Erin, drawn by a male internee on the Isle of Man for the Onchan...
What Uyghur Women face and what you can do to help stop it
By Evie Cawte, René Cassin Ambassador Since the beginning of time, the female experience has always been different;...
The Jewish case against immigration detention is a Jewish voice for women’s liberation
By Esther Raffell, René Cassin' Campaigns Officer International Women’s Day is a day of joy, affirmation, and...
URGENT ACTION: Is Genocide acceptable to you?
By Ruth Barnett "If you find genocide inflicted on peoples far away from here does not matter - then don't...
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
Women have the right to live free from violence and discrimination; to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn an equal wage.
“The loss of the Charter will be felt in the years to come”– Our human rights protections after Brexit
Let’s work to hold on to the benefits of Human Rights Act and European Convention
Immigration detention is putting asylum seekers in the UK at risk of suicide and self-harm
By Reanna Smith Immigration detention is putting asylum seekers in the UK at risk of suicide and self-harm. Two years...
MARVEL(lous) Jewish Human Rights Heroes
By Mia Hasenson-Gross, Executive Director, René Cassin According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the definition of a...
Human rights at risk in the UK government’s planned overhaul of the asylum system
by Reanna Smith The UK government has recently promised to make big changes to the UK’s asylum and immigration system,...