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Recipe For Rights: Pesach Edition!
After the success of our Recipe For Rights digital resources, we’re back with a special Pesach edition. This Filled...
Recipe for Rights: Purim
After the success of our Recipe For Rights digital resources, we’re back with a special Purim edition. This resource...
The Poetry of Women’s Resilience: International Women’s Day 2022
We celebrated International Women's Day with Emily Zinkin, Liz Arif-Fear and the Alliance of Jewish Women and Their...
Injustice on Our Doorstep: Protesting Hassockfield-Derwentside on International Women’s Day ’22
To round off our week of programming for International Women's Day in March, we visited Durham Jewish Society in...
Remembering Louis Bloch
We are sad to hear of the recent death of Louis Bloch, who represented René Cassin at the Council of Europe
The war in Ukraine: How to support Ukrainian refugees
From opening up your home to helping those working on the ground
Hands off our Human Rights Act!
Our submission to the consultation to reform the HRA
Ukraine refugees – government’s response is unjust, unlawful, and inadequate
It belies not just international law, but basic human dignity
Call to action: challenge the PCSC Bill
Ask your MP to challenge the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill (AKA the Policing Bill), which seeks to...
Beijing 2022 – forever known as the #GenocideGames
Ask MPs, businesses & wider society to counter China’s Olympics propaganda
Our Human Rights Act under threat – what does this mean to us?
There is no need to replace the Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights.
Verdict: Genocide!
On 9 December, the International Day for the Prevention of Genocide, the Independent People's Uyghur Tribunal panel...
Calls to Action
Get involved in our latest campaigns and help get our message across: Challenge VW on Forced Labour in China – call to...
Human Rights Shabbat 2021 (5782): The Right to Food
Download our ‘Right to Food’ Resource Pack
Call to action: stop the Anti-Refugee Bill
CLICK HERE to use our template letter for Jewish constituents to write to your MP. (You can find your MP by typing...
The Nationality & Borders Bill, what can you do?
The Anti-Refugee Bill (Nationality and Borders Bill) is soon returning to the House of Commons, which means it is time...
New Horizons Festival of Women’s Rights
30+ free online events – 26 Nov to 6 Dec – book your places now
Reach Out for your Rights
A new campaign against discrimination and hate for 2021 Background Hate speech and hate crime affect all marginalised...
Anti-slavery day 2021
Take action! Educate yourselfShop sustainablySign a petitionJoin a campaignAttend an eventResources from UnseenFind...
From rescue to resilience: It’s time to reimagine anti-slavery work
Jess Templeman, Director of Programmes at Arise For most people ‘slavery’ is a historic problem, or something limited...
Refugees welcome rally, lots of events, join our Ambassadors’ Programme – newsletter 15 October 2021
Actions, events, and an eductional programme – all on the menu in this newsletter
What’s happening to our human rights?
A week of action against the Policing Bill, the Nationality and Borders Bill and the review of the Human Rights Act...
René Cassin Statement on National Hate Crime Awareness Week
This week is National Hate Crime Awareness week. We reflect and stand in solidarity with all those affected by hate...
The 2021-2022 Ambassadors Programme
Don’t miss out – apply by 31 October 2021
“Insight, knowledge and numerous skills I gained and developed during my time with René Cassin”.
by Charlotte Cobb, work experience I first heard of René Cassin through Instagram, while I was looking for an...
Reflections of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and our actions in the mirror
By Charlotte Cobb, René Cassin intern As we approach the Chagim or High Holy Days, the Jewish month of Elul comes to a...
This New Year, let’s work to end food poverty
Please help René Cassin’s work on a Right to Food
Recipe For Rights: The High Holy Days Edition!
Right to Food – as fundamental to Judaism as it is to a just society
The importance of the Mizrahi Jewish experience of persecution and asylum
By Jack Walton, René Cassin intern "Telling the history of the Jewish populations from the Middle East and North...
Because of our Human Rights Act …
As the government reviews the Human Rights Act, we will be posting information here on how the Act helps ordinary people in their everyday lives.
René Cassin, the Jewish community, and solidarity with Uyghurs in China
How a small human rights charity made a big difference in prompting action on an unfolding genocide
Roma and Sinti Genocide Memorial Day – a René Cassin and Wiener Holocaust Library joint statement, 2 August 2021
Today we remember the persecution and genocide of Roma and Sinti people at the hands of the Nazis and their...