• AS Human Rights Day is upon us (today, December 10) I would like to invite your readers to join online events organised by Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association, looking at human rights in Palestine from a number of perspectives.

What is going on in Palestine is tragic. Just the other day we heard a 13-year-old boy had been shot in the stomach by an Israeli soldier and killed. And that another boy had been beaten so badly by Israeli forces his jawbone and teeth were broken.

And that an Israeli settler put fire in the church at Gethsemane in Jerusalem, trying to burn it down – luckily two Muslim boys stopped him.

Our charity works for human rights by building understanding of what is happening. We bring people together in positive projects, organise visits between here and Palestine and campaign for human rights.

Currently we are working with women in Palestine on media projects, with students in Palestine in talks for students here; we are building links between schools in both places, and we are based at Café Palestina in Kentish Town, where people can eat delicious Palestinian food!

We welcome your readers and their organisations to join us.

For Human Rights Day we have online meetings to which we welcome anyone who believes in human rights for all people:

– Places in Palestine – Linking Together for Human Rights – tonight (Thursday) at 7pm; this will include speakers from a number of towns in the West Bank and Gaza as well as friends from the UK.

– Pictures from Palestine – on Saturday December 12 at 7pm; this is an online photo exhibition with a talk by Camden photographer Sarah Saunders.

Links to these events are on our website cadfa.org and our Facebook events – also see @camdenabudis – and we hope that your readers can join us.

NANDITA DOWSON
Director,
CADFA 53 Fortess Road
NW5 1AD
contact@cadfa.org