Latest Calls to Action
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
‘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
China’s systematic oppression of Uyghur Women
René Cassin Briefing Paper - May 2020 Close to three million Muslim Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic communities in...
‘Safeguarding UK’s human rights law – partnership or challenge?’
René Cassin virtual roundtable, 20 May 2020 with Rebecca Hilsenrath, CEO, Equality and Human Rights Commission chaired...
We choose to speak out and stand up in solidarity with black people. Black lives matter.
René Cassin strongly condemns the unjust acts of state violence over the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and...
Call for action: this is what you can do for the Uyghurs
Support a Legal Challenge to Govt Decision to Allow Huawei 5G Network Access through this link. The legal challenge by...
Human Rights in Isolation – Top 15 recommendations to keep your mind active
Our Top 10 list of Human Rights related books, documentaries, films and webinars to keep your mind active and remind us why we are committed to change.
‘No More Business as Usual’: Global supply chains tainted by forced Uyghur labour in China.
Illustration by Yip Wong - ASPI report As the Coronavirus pandemic brings the rest of the world to a halt, China,...
Suggested actions in the time of COVID-19
Continuing to support human rights In these unusual times, when our old ways of campaigning are impossible (for...
“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...
Windrush: Lessons Learned
“I can’t believe I have been treated like this by my beloved England”
Lock-down focuses our human rights glasses
By Student Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber The glasses we usually associate with Pesach contain wine. But I think glasses...
Righteous Women – René Cassin’s Women’s Seder
What is your Seder night like? Does your father or grandfather sit at the head of the table and lead the telling of the exodus? Do you remember our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Do you discuss what the four sons have to say?
What about the righteous women?
stay Hopeful, stay Helpful, stay Human
Coronavirus statement from Mia, René Cassin’s Executive Director
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
“They belong” – René Cassin submission to Home Office consultation on police powers and ‘unauthorised encampments’
Nomadic ways of life have long been a part of the country we call home – René Cassin’s submission responded to a Government consultation (March 2020) on “strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments”.
Purim, the Book of Esther and Human Rights
by Moses Seitler, Education and Community Engagement Officer at René Cassin A summary of most Jewish holidays is they...
René Cassin honours the legacy of ‘Righteous Women’ on International Women’s Day 2020
René Cassin, the Jewish voice for human rights, strongly believes in the importance of learning from experience; we...
Huawei and the internment of three million Muslim Uyghurs
by Sheldon Stone The UK government’s decision (28 January 2020) on future of Huawei, as a leading telecommunications...
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: IWD2020 Women’s Seder
Join us for an evening of discussion, sisterhood and solidarity
Reflection on session 1
By Jade Weiner The 2020 René Cassin-AJA Fellowship Programme began with an exciting and inspiring introductory...
‘Standing together’ or ‘a race apart’?
Written by Shamus McPhee, Chairperson of RAJPOT (www.rajpot.org.uk) The theme of Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 is:...
Meet the 2020 Cohort of René Cassin AJA Fellows
Meet the 2020 fellows and read their bios here
The UK’s Human Rights Act (1998) and why it needs protecting
by Debora Singer, Updated April 2020 History of the Human Rights Act In 1948 theUnited Nations published the...
China’s Xinjiang camps are eerily familiar
Policy is “designed to wipe the Uyghurs off the face of the earth”
The Uyghur Crisis – briefing paper (January 2020)
It is estimated that close to two million Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities are being detained indefinitely in ‘re-education’ camps in China’s western Xinjiang Region, where they are forced to deny their religion and culture as ‘backwards and dangerous.
Holocaust Memorial Day – standing together to say ‘Never again!’
China must stop its brutal repression of Uyghur Muslims
Standing Together Against Hate
With the dramatic rise in hate crime, now is the time to stand together