• I READ in your newspaper that Camden Council are to name the intersection near Swains Lane after a Russian human rights activist, and remember that the road that housed the Anti-Apartheid Movement was renamed after Nelson Mandela.

May I suggest that an area of Camden be named after Shireen Abu Aqleh, the most famous of the Palestinian journalists to be murdered while doing her job reporting honestly on behalf of the many thousands (sadly I am not exaggerating) of Palestinians killed with impunity by the Israeli military?

This would be a real stand for equality and human rights in a mean world where some people are allowed to count more than others.

There are often small demos calling for human rights in Palestine at the canopy area (at the intersection of Kentish Town and Leighton roads).

On behalf of CADFA, the locally-based human rights charity that has made really special links between Camden and Abu Dis in Palestine for nearly 20 years, now, I would love to see an Abu Dis Square in Camden… but in parallel with the council’s current efforts in Highgate, calling an area after a notable individual to call for human rights, I would like to suggest that that Kentish Town area be renamed Shireen Abu Aqleh Square.

NANDITA DOWSON
CADFA.org, NW5