By Mitchell Woolf NOTE: this article is a summary of a webinar Mitchell gave on 7 October 2020 as part of the René...
The Disability Crisis – waiting on the next big fix in social care
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“Home Office Policy For Deporting Migrants Ruled Unlawful”
By Miranda Zeffman On October 20th, the Court of Appeal ruled that a Home Office policy giving migrants just 72 hours’...
The Modern Day Babel Fable
By Dr. Sheldon Stone, René Cassin Fellow and Campaign Associate, Advisory Group to STOPUYGHURGENOCIDE, World Uyghur...
Standing Together Against the Pandemic of Hate
By Minnie Wiggins, René Cassin intern This year’s National Hate Crime Awareness Week (10-17 October) seeks to bring...
Chained Women: Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery of Jewish Women in the 20th Century
By Lesley Urbach, René Cassin Fellow At the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century Jewish European...
Forced labour in Channel Islands during WWII – it happened then, and it is happening now
By Claudia Hyde, René Cassin alumni “Remember that you were once slaves in the land of Egypt” Deuteronomy 15:15...
Women’s Environmental Leadership – how a human rights approach can help people and the planet
By Eva Rehse and Sandy McClure, Global Greengrants Fund UK We need to act now to protect our planet, which is facing...
Virus crisis – yet another reason to close immigration removal centres
“… an unnecessary evil and a totally avoidable catastrophe”
‘Reimagine our society as a diverse and knitted-together mass of communities’
By Rabbi David Mason, Muswell Hill Synagogue I was asked recently, by the Jewish human rights organisation René Cassin...
Imagine – an end to immigration detention
Coronavirus has shown us that radical change is possible
The kindness of strangers
A Refugee Week poem by Debora Singer
“They miss the drop-in and the things that made their lives more bearable”
COVID-19 and the Alyth Refugee Drop-in Response Cheryl Brodie, co-Coordinator of Alyth drop-in centre The Alyth...