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URGENT ACTION: Is Genocide acceptable to you?
By Ruth Barnett "If you find genocide inflicted on peoples far away from here does not matter - then don't...
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
Women have the right to live free from violence and discrimination; to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn an equal wage.
Evil will not triumph
René Cassin statement on government’s blocking of ‘Genocide Amendment’
Remember Edmund Burke – do something about Uyghur genocide
Mia’s plea to MPs: “Support ‘Genocide Amendment'”
Help us take the next steps on the road to Uyghur freedom
Please make a donation to stop genocide of Uyghurs
Being a light in the darkness
René Cassin’s Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 statement
Jewish Action to Stop Uyghur Persecution
Urgent call to action – find out how you can get involved
“The loss of the Charter will be felt in the years to come”– Our human rights protections after Brexit
Let’s work to hold on to the benefits of Human Rights Act and European Convention
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...
Happy Human Rights Day – newsletter 10 December 2020
Celebrating the UDHR … Jewish Human Rights Superheroes … essay competition … solidarity with Uyghur Muslims
Food, clothing and a home are human rights too
René Cassin statement on Human Rights Day 2020
MARVEL(lous) Jewish Human Rights Heroes
By Mia Hasenson-Gross, Executive Director, René Cassin According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the definition of a...
Genocide Prevention Day
“The Uyghurs need us look at what is happening to them, condemn it, and act to stop it.
“Why is genocide still happening, and what can we do to stop it?” – essay competition result
“The levers to prevent genocide are manifold. It is about time we pull them”
Preventing Genocide – Human Rights Shabbat 5781 (2020) Resource Pack
For this year’s Human Rights Shabbat, we are focusing on the theme of Genocide and asking the question: ‘How can the Jewish experience and principles inform the prevention of genocide today?’
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,...
The Disability Crisis – waiting on the next big fix in social care
By Mitchell Woolf NOTE: this article is a summary of a webinar Mitchell gave on 7 October 2020 as part of the René...
“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...
Essay competition, events & recruitment for growth – newsletter 3 November 2020
We’re growing! So we’re recruiting Campaigns Officers … our essay competition tackles the urgent issue of genocide … and our Human Rights Act film features in the Jewish Film Festival
Campaigns Officers (2 posts)
Join our growing team – apply by Monday 16 November
The Modern Day Babel Fable
By Dr. Sheldon Stone, René Cassin Fellow and Campaign Associate, Advisory Group to STOPUYGHURGENOCIDE, World Uyghur...
Join the Campaign to #CutItOut
Help us campaign to stop hate speech and hate crime
Standing Together Against the Pandemic of Hate
By Minnie Wiggins, René Cassin intern This year’s National Hate Crime Awareness Week (10-17 October) seeks to bring...
Meet the 2020 Ambassador Cohort
September saw the launch of René Cassin's Human Rights Ambassador Programme. The programme brings together students...
The Human Rights Act – 20 years of our Key to Fairness!
Today marks twenty years since the Human Rights Act came into force in the UK. For two decades fundamental...
Human Rights Shabbat 5781 (2020)
‘How can Jewish experience and principles inform the prevention of genocide today?’ Update 2 December 2020:...
Why is genocide still happening, and what can we do to stop it? – ‘Human Writes’ essay competition
Judged by Lord Finkelstein. £100 prize. Deadline 9 November.
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...
Time for action to halt Uyghur genocide – newsletter 14 August 2020
Human rights as an optimist’s creed … action to support Uyghur Muslims in China … remembering Srebenica … become a René Cassin Human Rights Ambassador
What has the Human Rights Act got to do with us?
Discover how our human rights safety net helps ordinary people in their everyday lives. Debora Singer MBE is the...