Hostile Environment
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...
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,...
“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’...
Joint Submission: Forced Labour in UK Value Chains
René Cassi recently signed on to a joint submission as part of the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region...
Join the Campaign to #CutItOut
Help us campaign to stop hate speech and hate crime
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...
End Uyghur Forced Labour in China Now
René Cassin joins worldwide coalition of 198 organisations
Virus crisis – yet another reason to close immigration removal centres
“… an unnecessary evil and a totally avoidable catastrophe”
Write to your MP!
Ask them to support amendments to the Immigration Bill on a time limit for detention
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
Windrush: Lessons Learned
“I can’t believe I have been treated like this by my beloved England”
Remembering Amir Siman-Tov and the cost of the UK’s immigration system
by Michael Goldin, Coordinator of the Detention Jewish Visitors Group On Sunday 1st March I attended an event to mark...
René Cassin’s Women’s Seder Haggadah Companion
The 4 items on our Seder Plate: resistance, solidarity, empowerment & legacy
Modern slavery and homelessness: René Cassin workshop
by Alice Akca, René Cassin Intern “The majority of modern slavery victims in the UK are from the UK.” This...
Vote for Human Rights!
Key questions to put to anyone asking for your vote on 12 December
Today, on Anti-Slavery Day we are focussing on those small, often unnoticed, places, close to home, where human rights begin
Slavery is not history. It would be comforting to think that it ended with William Wilberforce’s Abolition Act in...
Modern Slavery and Homelessness Workshops
Sign up for our free evening workshops on 6th and 13th November 2019
Gender equality and modern day slavery: is girl power the answer?
Intern Alice reports on the gendered aspect of modern slavery and suggests possible solutions.
County lines – the child criminal exploitation on our doorsteps
Ben Lewis reports on an often missed aspect of child exploitation in the UK
Kindertransport to the Hostile Environment: Britain’s Immigration System Then and Now
Report of our Parliamentary event for Refugee Week 2019
The Lethal Policy of Indefinite Immigration Detention
René Cassin’s Campaigns Officer, Hannah Swirsky, writes in Jewish News Online: In Britain each year, around 25,000...
Refugee Week 2019
René Cassin is proud to support Refugee Week 2019 (17-23 June). Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human...
That’s Not a Good Look: Fast Fashion and Modern Slavery
Lauren Chaplin explores whether, six years on from Rana Plaza tragedy, anything has changed.
Immigration Regulations Undermine NRM Despite Reforms
By Jane Kilpatrick Trafficking victim Peter came in contact with @ECPATUK after he ran away from his traffickers, in...
As Modern Slavery Starts to Emerge from the Shadows, are we Ready for it?
Will Bordell March was a month of modern slavery data-points – and they’re not as dull as they might sound. Across the...
MPs Call for End to Indefinite Detention
By Bella Lever Last month, the Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report which called for a time limit on...
International Women’s Day 2019: Fundraising for Freedom
As we mark International Women’s Day, René Cassin is asking Youth Movements and local communities to organise...
Parliamentary Committee Backs Call for a 28-day Time Limit
Last week the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published its report on immigration detention in the UK, joining...
These Walls Must Fall in Bristol
Two Bristol students discuss the successful campaign for Bristol City Council to pass a These Walls Must Fall motion....
Victims of Modern Slavery Going Hungry
Despite the PM stating that modern slavery is the "greatest human rights issue of our time", victims are going hungry....