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René Cassin
Jonathan Metzer
January 16, 2025, 3:43 pm
UK Jewish human rights charity appoints new Chair of Trustees
Barrister Jonathan Metzer joins the board of René Cassin, replacing Danny Silverstone
By Michelle Rosenberg
Man wearing a kippah in public
March 14, 2022, 12:17 pm
OPINION: Hands off our Human Rights Act!
'Jewish people in the UK understand the importance of the right of individuals to hold the state to account. Our response to the Human Rights Act review is to stand firm.'
By Debora Singer
A muslim is praying before the demonstration in solidarity with the Uyghurs, started in Amsterdam, on December 29th, 2019. (Photo by Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto)
June 10, 2021, 10:27 am
OPINION: International Olympic Committee must learn lessons of 1936
Amid a campaign for companies supporting Beijing's 2020 games to raise abuses against Uyghur Muslims, Mia Hasenson-Gross of René Cassin says the IOC must look into history
By Mia Hasenson-Gross
June 10, 2021, 10:24 am
Chief Rabbi joins JN campaign targeting sponsors of China’s ‘Genocide Games’
Initiative urges Britain’s Jews to “taint the brand” of the Beijing Winter Olympics and make voices heard in the boardrooms of companies supplying it.
By Adam Decker
From the WebFebruary 11, 2021, 5:18 pm
JN Podcast Special: What next in the campaign for Uyghurs?
Guests on a special panel include Uyghur activist Kamalturk Yalqun, Baroness Helena Kennedy, MP Alistair Carmichael, Rene Cassin's Mia Hasenson-Gross and journalist Oz Katerji
Protestors against discrimination of Uyghurs
January 15, 2021, 2:44 pm
30 rabbis and community leaders back bill urging end to Uyghur persecution
Faith leaders from all denominations back Rene Cassin's appeal to take action, as Board president Marie van der Zyl writes to the Prime Minister asking for support
By Jack Mendel
A demonstrator outside Volkswagen showroom, Southgate, London, protesting the company’s presence in the Uyghur region of China and its use of Uyghur forced labour.
December 11, 2020, 9:56 am
OPINION: Volkswagen needs to be whiter than white on slave labour in China
Dr Sheldon Stone and Mia Hasenson-Gross of Rene Cassin and Stop Uyghur Genocide urge companies operating in China to realise responsibilities to its persecuted Muslim minority
By Dr Sheldon Stone and Mia Hasenson-Gross
A demonstrator outside Volkswagen showroom, Southgate, London, protesting the company’s presence in the Uyghur region of China and its use of Uyghur forced labour.
From the WebDecember 10, 2020, 4:47 pm
OPINION: Volkswagen needs to be whiter than white on slave labour in China
Dr Sheldon Stone and Mia Hasenson-Gross of Rene Cassin and Stop Uyghur Genocide urge companies operating in China to realise responsibilities to its persecuted Muslim minority
By Dr Sheldon Stone and Mia Hasenson-Gross
Quilt woven together by refugees to mark succot
September 30, 2020, 12:47 pm
Interfaith charity marks succot with quilt of 700 squares made by refugees
Pieces of fabric woven together for the CCJ's project, with its president Rabbi Wittenberg saying it brings the festival's 'central theme into a contemporary context'
By Jenni Frazer
Thousands of Muslims held a rally in front of the China Embassy-Jakarta in Indonesia last year, protesting the treatment of Uyghurs. (Credit Image: © Donal Husni/ZUMA Wire)
August 20, 2020, 10:44 am
Jewish News leads call for MPs to pressure China over Uighurs
The campaign, organised in partnership with World Uyghur Congress, René Cassin and the Conservative MP Nus Ghani, petitions parliamentarians to push for sanctions
By Mathilde Frot
Roma prisoners (Credit USHMM/ HMDT via Jewish News)
July 30, 2020, 4:38 pm
Jewish group supports Roma community as it marks genocide memorial day
Sunday marks the anniversary of the killing of 2,897 Roma men, women and children in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944
By Jewish News Reporter
Panel on Uyghur persecution
July 24, 2020, 12:53 pm
Uyghur leader in UK: China’s persecution evolving into ‘more genocidal policy’
Rahima Mahmut tells an online Jewish News panel event with Maajid Nawaz, MP Nusrat Ghani and representatives from René Cassin and HMDT, of new techology being used for persecution.
By Jenni Frazer
From the WebJuly 23, 2020, 2:02 pm
JN PANEL DEBATE: The Uyghurs’ Plight – with Maajid Nawaz, Rene Cassin & HMDT
Jewish News and Rene Cassin hosted an online panel discussion on Thursday evening, entitled: Chilling Echoes: The plight of the Uyghurs and why we must act now. Watch it here.
By Jewish News
July 16, 2020, 9:11 am
13 tonnes of hair taken from China’s Uyghur Muslims has ‘Nazi resonance’
Influential MP on human rights speaks of 'many distressing echoes' for Jews over China's 'brutal suppression' of Muslim minority, as communal figures call on the UK to do more
By Adam Decker
Colnbrook detention centre
June 5, 2019, 3:12 pm
OPINION: The lethal policy of indefinite detention
Following the death of Amir Siman-Tov, a Moroccan Jewish man at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, Hannah Swirsky of René Cassin calls for a change of government policy
By Hannah Swirsky
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