Remembering the Roma Genocide … Refugee Week … China’s repression of Muslim minorities … Socio-economic justice … RC Fellows in Budapest … and the latest on our events
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
Making the Jewish case for Human Rights, in ‘small places, close to home’ – newsletter 13 March 2019
Updates on our Jewish Human Rights Heroes event … our ‘Making the Jewish case for Human Rights’ publication … latest campaigning news … profiling activist Debora Singer … and notice of new events in May and September
Celebrating Nelson Mandela’s “sudden ray of hope” – newsletter 14 November 2018
Events to mark 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights … ‘Sunrise, not Sunset’ film shows how the Human Rights Act helps ordinary people in everyday situations … remembering the Roma Holocaust … latest campaigning on modern slavery and indefinite immigration detention
Meet the 70 year old safeguarding human dignity around the world – newsletter 27 July 2018
Celebrating ‘the Magna Carta for all humanity’ … on the front line of human rights defence – René Cassin in Budapest … remembering the Roma victims of the Holocaust … demanding an end to indefinite immigration detention
A Human Rights milestone – newsletter 7 March 2018
Celebrating & Remembering – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70, progress on modern slavery, latest human rights readings and … introducing Hannah Swirsky, our new Campaigns Manager
Will the Government keep its Brexit promise on human rights? – newsletter 29 November 2017
The EU Withdrawal Bill was supposed to be a ‘copy & paste’ job. But human rights were very nearly ‘cut & trashed’. Hear how we put the Shadow Brexit Secretary ‘through his paces’. And when Kevin met Ephraim – how René Cassin brought the Slavery Commissioner and the Chief Rabbi together to discuss the scourge of modern day slavery.
Where now for human rights? – newsletter 20 July 2017
Our future-gazing roundtable with Times columnist David Aaronovitch, Keir Starmer in Conversation, the Fellowship Programme visits Budapest – plus a round-up of all the latest news
So, we wrote to the Prime Minister … newsletter 23 March 2017
We ask Theresa May to reconsider her desire to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights – plus a round-up of all our latest campaigns
It’s not all gloom and doom – newsletter 22 December 2016
2016 has been an unsettling year for human rights – but there are many reasons to be cautiously optimistic – and many ways you can help us keep the flame of human rights alight.
Latest news from René Cassin – newsletter 29 September 2016
Defending the Human RIghts Act after the Brexit vote; Free asylum workshops; Speaking out against Hate Crime – and Jewish New Year greetings from Director, Mia Hasenson-Gross
Latest news from René Cassin – newsletter 2 June 2016
Good news on asylum, the fight to save the Human Rights Act and much more – read the latest round-up of René Cassin’s work in our supporters’ newsletter, 2 June 2016
Latest news from René Cassin – newsletter 24 February 2016
The lethal policy of immigration detention, defending the Human Rights Act … and much more – read the latest news from René Cassin – in our supporters’ newsletter, 24 February 2016