Hostile Environment
Updated: René Cassin Safe Routes Briefing 2025
June 2025 What are safe routes? When conflict or persecution occurs, it is up for other states to help refugees flee...
Updated: Alternatives to Detention Briefing 2025
Immigration Detention Immigration detention is the practice of holding asylum seekers and migrants in custody while...
Rene Cassin Rabbis Letter to PM: Express Concern Over Anti-Migrant Rhetoric
Dear Prime Minister, RE: Jewish community leaders show concern over anti-migrant rhetoric and policies from the...
Uyghur Tomato Action: Putting Profit Before Human Rights
The global tomato paste supply chain is tainted by Uyghur forced labour in the Uyghur Region of Xinjiang, China. Many...
GB Energy Letter to Ed Miliband Template
Dear Mr Miliband, I want to begin by acknowledging the importance of GB Energy in bringing the UK closerto achieving...
GB Energy is at Risk of Relying on Slavery Briefing
What is GB Energy, and how is it linked to modern slavery GB Energy is a huge project introduced by the government to...
World Day Against Human Trafficking
‘No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms’,...
Safe Routes to Home
Conflicts and political persecution around the world have caused vast amounts of forced displacements, from historical...
Fathers Day Action 2024
Throughout history, the ability to seek refuge has been essential to Jewish survival.However, in the UK today, those...
Refugee Week Statement 2024
During this year’s 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport, we draw on our experiences as Jewish people, of seeking...
One Life: Book Review
by Debora Singer I have grown up with the images of children being put on trains by their tearful parents. My mother,...
The Safety of Rwanda Bill Returning to the House of Lords – Why Should We Care?
15th April 2024 As the Rwanda Safety Bill is brought back to the House of Lords today, we ask peers to ensure it...
Rene Cassin Seder 2024: Safe Routes
April 2024 The four questions explore the stories of Pesach, that of enslavement and the journey to freedom. Many of...
Safe Routes Letter to MP Template
April 2024 Write to your MP about providing refugees and asylum seekers with safe and legal routes to the UK by using...
“Ensure Rwanda Bill respects rule of law” – Jewish human rights charity urges Lord Chancellor
PRESS RELEASE – 14 March 2024 René Cassin – the Jewish voice for human rights – has asked the Lord Chancellor to...
Briefing on the Rwanda Safety Bill – Current debate in the House of Lords
Updated: 19th February 2024 René Cassin joined together with 265 civil society organisations in calling for the House...
Valentine’s Day Action for Refugees 2024
This Valentine's Day, share refugee solidarity Valentine’s Day cards and show that the Jewish community is one of love...
“A half-truth is a whole lie”
Libi Sears, Rene Cassin Intern The new government guidance released on Modern Slavery and Asylum Allocation referred...
Briefing on the Supreme Court ruling on Rwanda – November 2023
Background In April 2022 the Government set up the Rwanda asylum plan, a new system for dealing with applications from...
BREAKING: RWANDA ruled UNLAWFUL!
We are relieved today that the Supreme Court has made the right decision in...
The ‘Small Boats’ Illegal Migration Act
The 'Small Boats' Illegal Migration Act September Update As a Jewish community, we understand from experience...
Illegal Migration Act – our fight is not over
Defiant statement from civil society
From the Kindertransport to the Illegal Migration Bill – a plea for kinder treatment of asylum seekers
“We must advocate for a kinder treatment of asylum seekers within our country, and actively seek to redirect the narrative away from hostility and towards compassion.” writes Alfie Futerman
Challenge VW on Forced Labour in China
Call to action – contact Volkswagen today
René Cassin submits evidence on the state of the asylum system
We have submitted evidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, reasserting our "grave concerns about...
Jewish Bloc attends Shut Down Manston Protest
YESTERDAY: On Sunday 6th November, dozens of British Jews formed the Jewish Bloc of the Shut Manston Protest outside...
End Uyghur Forced Labour in China – call to action
Western companies should not be profiting from Uyghur forced labour
Refugee Week Guest Blog: The Latin American Women’s Rights Service
Photo Credit: LAWRS This guest blog was written by The Latin American Women's Rights Service for Refugee Week 2022....
The Nationality and Borders Act: making the environment evermore hostile
A view from René Cassin activist and immigration lawyer, Michael Goldin While the infamous Nationality and...
Refugee Week 2022 – René Cassin’s statement
This year has posed so many new challenges to the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers, who deserve a just and...
#Refugee Week 2022: Ways to challenge the hostile environment
Stop the inhumane policy of sending refugees to Rwanda
Offshoring in Rwanda: what’s the problem and what can you do about it
Last week the UK government announced its plans to initiate offshore processing and settling of asylum seekers in...