Partners

The Human Trafficking Foundation (HTF) is a UK-based charity which grew out of the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking. HTF was created in order to support and add value to the work of the many charities and agencies operating to combat human trafficking in the UK.

HTF's vision is of a UK:

• which presents a hostile environment for human traffickers
• where there is widespread public awareness of the evils and existence of trafficking
• where there is tangible and accessible support for trafficking victims
• where traffickers are swiftly and effectively brought to justice.

The JCC is inclusive, fresh and aims to hold up a 21st century lens to every aspect of Jewish life and beyond. To learn more, please go to: http://www.jcclondon.org.uk/ 

Friends, Families and Travellers seeks to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers, whatever their ethnicity, culture or background, whether settled or mobile, and to protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life. 

Friends, Families and Travellers is a registered charity (no.111 2326) and is based in Brighton.

To read more about our collaborative work, click here.

René Cassin and Anti-Slavery International (ASI) are working together to raise awareness of contemporary slavery in the Jewish community, and to raise funds for our work to eradicate slavery.

René Cassin is a human rights charitable organisation that uses historical Jewish experience and positive Jewish values to campaign and educate on universal human rights issues.

The organisation is named in honour of René Cassin, one of the principal co-drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

Anti-Slavery International is the world’s oldest international human rights organisation.

Having led on the historical abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, it works today to end all forms of slavery at local, national and international levels.

ASI identifies slavery abuses and raises awareness of them.

ASI also stops these abuses from continuing and helps former slaves not to slip back into slavery, as well as preventing new abuses from taking place in the future.

ASI works with international partners on joint projects to end slavery. 

René Cassin has recently launched a campaign to end slavery and is working on raising awareness of the existence of modern slavery in the UK, Europe and Israel.  We are seeking meaningful reform to existing laws and are working  to change attitudes that perpetuate slavery.  We are currently conducting research and gathering evidence on slavery in Israel.

We are seeking members of the Jewish community to collaborate with René Cassin and Anti-Slavery International in this work.

If you are interested, please e-mail Simone Abel at simone.abel@renecassin.org.

The Clemens Nathan Research Centre, an organisation dedicated to the promotion of international human rights, is the research arm of the Consultative Council of Jewish Organisations, a human rights NGO with consultative status at the United Nations, founded in 1946 by the Nobel Prize Laureate René Cassin. Its constituent organisations are the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Alliance israélite universelle. It is named after Clemens Nathan who is also its first chairman. Alan Stephens  is director of research.

The activities of both organisations have included holding lectures and conferences, and sponsoring books on human rights.

Since its establishment in 2004, the CNRC has initiated a number of innovative programmes, including a long-term research project, in collaboration with the International Bar Association and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, Sweden, to formulate rules of conduct for human rights fact-finding missions. Since February 2005, the CNRC has organised five very successful conferences - in Lund, on Fact-Finding, and in London, on Religion and Human Rights (with the Commonwealth Institute, University of London), on Terrorism and Human Rights, on Foreign Policy and Human Rights, and on the Freedom of the Media and Human Rights, the last three having been held at the premises of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, Arundel House. Keynote speakers at the London conferences were Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford; Lord Guthrie, former Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom; Sir Jeremy Greenstock, former UK Ambassador to the United Nations, and Andrew Puddephat, Director of Global Partners and Associates. The Centre's forthcoming events include a conference on Health and Human Rights.

All CNRC conferences generate edited publications, in book form, the first being, "Does God believe in Human Rights?" (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2007, ISBN 9004152547).

The CNRC also organizes periodic René Cassin Memorial Lectures, recent lecturers having included Professor Bertrand Ramcharan, former acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (lecture held at Chatham House, London) and M. Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice of France (lecture held at the Law Society, London).

The Down's Syndrome Association is a charitable organisation that helps people with Down's syndrome to live full and rewarding lives.

It is the only organisation in the United Kingdom focusing solely on all aspects of living successfully with Down's syndrome.

The organisation strives to improve knowledge of the Down's Syndrome condition and to champion the rights of people with Down's syndrome.

René Cassin has an active interest in disability rights and in assisting the Down's Syndrome Association in its awareness raising activities and campaigns around this issue. 

ReneCassin is a resident of JHub, which provides residency, organisational development and support to Jewish Social Action charities.

JHub is a centre of creativity, energy, learning and innovation. The Pears Foundation generously supports the JHub, which provides office space, meeting rooms and a support network for innovative UK based Jewish individuals, projects and organisations who are working to contribute meaningfully, in a variety of ways, to the Jewish and wider world.

EDF is a network of national NGOs committed to progress on age, disability, gender, gender identity, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation and on broader equality and human rights issues.

EDF is a registered charity (no 1135357) and is hosted by Age UK.

Faith Matters is a not for profit organisation that works with communities in ensuring that stereotypes about ‘others’ are challenged, so as to ensure peaceful communities and the development of mutual respect which all human beings are entitled to.  To learn more, go to: http://faith-matters.org/

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Crisis Action is an international, non-profit organisation which aims to help avert conflicts, prevent human rights abuses and ensure governments fulfil their obligations to protect civilians.

Crisis Action works behind the scenes to support a diverse range of partners who are all concerned with tackling the immediate effects or long-term consequences of conflict. We aim to help them increase the impact of their responses to current and emerging conflict-related crises.

Crisis Action operates in a flexible manner with partners choosing to engage in temporary 'opt-in' alliances on specific crises.

The support we provide is determined by the specific circumstances of each crisis and may include:

• Warning of emerging crises and prompting early responses 
• Sharing information and analysis between partners
• Research and analysis of Government policy
• Facilitating partner dialogue
• Negotiating joint policy platforms
• Coordination of agreed partner action plans
• Planning and executing joint campaigns
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of joint responses to crises

Crisis Action has offices in Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, London, New York and Paris.

What is the Fundamental Rights Agency

Th e European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is an advisory body of the European Union. It was set up in March 2007 and is based in Vienna, Austria. Th e FRA helps to ensure that the fundamental rights of people living in the EU are protected. It does this by collecting evidence about the situation of fundamental rights across the European Union and providing advice, based on the evidence, about how to improve the situation. Th e FRA also informs people about their fundamental rights. In doing so, it helps to make fundamental rights a reality for everyone in the European Union.

What is the Fundamental Rights Platform?

The Agency's Fundamental Rights Platform brings together many of the key civil society organizations working on human rights issues and provides the Agency with a greater sense of what is happening on the ground and how the Agency's work can make human rights promotion and protection more visible and effective.

What are fundamental rights?

Fundamental rights, or human rights, express values that receive the highest level of legal protection and guarantee a certain level of freedom and treatment for everyone.

When the European Union passes legislation or issues decisions, it must ensure that it does not contradict these standards. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union is the European Union’s commitment to the basic rights and freedoms of all people living in the European Union.

René Cassin is a proud member of the Jewish Social Action Forum (JSAF).
 
JSAF is a body made up of organisations within the UK Jewish community that are committed to Social Action. Inspired by Jewish values, heritage and experience, JSAF has a particular focus on Jewish involvement in national and global issues that are of universal concern.

JSAF have two current campaigns and you can find more information about these at:

• www.biggreenjewish.org
• www.fairtradekippot.org 

René Cassin is also an active participant in Siach: an international environment and social justice conversation. JSAF is the European partner working with Israel & North America on furthering the Jewish contribution to social justice worldwide. For more information visit www.siachconversation.org.