René Cassin is running an exciting programme of events to highlight and inform our new work on women’s rights.

The festival explores and celebrates the rights of women, and the wonderful work taking place within the Jewish community and wider society to promote women’s social justice. It assesses the legacy of women’s rights and the new directions in which campaigns are headed. Over 10 days, we examine the multifaceted reality of being a woman in a ‘post-pandemic’ world, socio-economic challenges to gender equality and building bold, determined Jewish communities in the quest for full equality.

Festival Programme

Events listed below are confirmed. More sessions are being added, so check this page regularly. All sessions are free to attend. All but the launch on the evening of Wed 24 November are online.

Book your places, get involved, help shape the future of women’s rights.

• Wed 24 November 7 pm Tales from a Matriarchy
• Fri 26 November 30 am When Religious Freedom Suffers, so do the Rights of Women
• Sun 28 November 9 am Women in Leadership in International Development
• Sun 28 November 12 noon Tech and Gender Based Violence: New Horizons Workshop
• Sun 28 November 12 noon Disability Rights and the Jewish Community: My experience as a disabled woman
• Sun 28 November 30 pm ‘We are shadows; our souls dead’: Female suffering in the Uyghur genocide
• Sun 28 November 8 pm Creating a Caring Economy: The work of the UK’s Women’s Budget Group
• Mon 29 November 8 am The Commonwealth Interfaith CommUNITY – Why intersectional feminism matters
• Mon 29 November 12 noon Building a More Compassionate Political Landscape: New Horizons Workshop
• Mon 29 November 12 noon “Women Who Kill” Centre for Women’s Justice
• Mon 29 November 30 pm “It is a Marathon, not a Sprint”: An evening with Dame Margaret Hodge
• Mon 29 November 30pm Digital Self-Defence and Self-Care: New Horizons Workshop
• Tue 30 November 30 am Young Women Facing Unemployment
• Tue 30 November 30 am UJS Women Presidents: Where are they now?
• Tue 30 November 12 noon ‘Building Back Better’ with Caroline Nokes MP
• Tue 30 November 30 pm Heads Up Shoulders Back: Effective campaigning as a young woman in politics
• Tue 30 November 30 pm Reclaiming Mikveh as Feminist Practice
• Wed 1 December 30 am Stepping into your Power and Creating Change: New Horizons Workshop
• Wed 1 December 12 noon Keeping Faith in Feminism
• Wed 1 December 12 noon How the Justice System is Failing Women
• Wed 1 December 3 pm Organisational Leadership
• Wed 1 December 30 pm An Evening with Jess Phillips MP
• Thu 2 December 9 am Dual Hate: Antisemitism, Misogyny and what we can do about it
• Thu 2 December 12 noon Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community: The Impact of COVID-19
• Thu 2 December 30 pm Expanding the Palace of Torah: Where next for Orthodox Jewish women?
• Sun 5 December 11 am Poetry Workshop
• Sun 5 December 12 noon Inspired by Hope: New visions for empowered consent education
• Sun 5 December 5 pm Jewish Teens for Empowered Consent: New Horizons Workshop
• Mon 6 December 12 noon  Journeys: Jewish Women’s Stories of Displacement and Migration
• Mon 6 December 6 pm Food Security, Women and the Prevention of Genocide
• Mon 6 December 30 pm Celebrating Uyghur Culture and Jewish Friendship

For further information and updates go to https://www.renecassin.org/event/new-horizons-festival-of-womens-rights/

November 10, 2021