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11 Apr, 2017 | Promotion

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In this uncertain world … please help us re-make the case for human rights

Hello, I’m Mia Hasenson-Gross, René Cassin’s Director

This Pesach, please to help us continue and expand our vital work – by making a one-off donation or committing to a regular monthly payment.

We are currently focussing on a number of issues where a Jewish voice has a particular resonance:

  • Slavery and human trafficking – where we are seeking to build on the welcome momentum created by the Modern Slavery Act 2015
  • Human rights provisions in the UK – where we are working to re-make the case for human rights, by highlight the fact that human rights law developed as a response to the Holocaust
  • Asylum – where we are calling for a 28-day time limit for immigration detention
  • Discrimination – where we are highlighting the prejudice endured by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
  • Human rights education – where we are empowering tomorrow’s human rights advocates through our René Cassin Fellowship Programme for young professionals, and speaking to school students and youth groups

You can find more information about the work your donation will help to fund here.

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Thank you.

Today, 10th December, is International Human Rights Day – the 76th anniversary of the signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. 

 

 

The Declaration was a reaction to the horrors of the Holocaust. So, for Jews, today has a particuar significance. 

Although rooted in response to atrocity, the Declaration was forward-looking and optimistic. It spoke for the majority of people who knew a better world was possible. The fact that it’s co-author , the French-Jewish lawyer Monsieur Rene Cassin, could draft such a hopeful document so soon after 26 members of his family were murdered by the Nazis is a testament to his humanity and the power of human rights in general. 

Today, as the organisation that works in Cassin’s name, we are determined to ensure his Declaration’s vision of human rights for all is fully realised. Central to that work is a focus on so called ‘socio-economic rights’ – rights to everyday essentials like food, housing and health. This vision was best articulated in Article 25 of the Declaration: 

‘Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control’.

Bolstering these rights would ensure everybody has access to the foundations on which to build a dignified, prosperous and meaningful life. They have been neglected for too long.

 

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