BASW visit to Palestine
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Transcript of BASW visit to Palestine
Rupert Franklin & Guy Shennan
BASW visit to PalestineOctober - November 2011
BASW in Palestine 2011
Our Purpose
Our Observations
Future Plans
Guy Rupert Sarah Dave
Riad Arar
Defence for Children International,
PUSWP, Hebron Branch
Raed Amira
Chair, PUSWP, Bethlehem Branch
BASW-PUSWP meetings
Nablus
Tulkarem
Bethlehem
Hebron
Jerusalem
Jenin
Issues facing social workers in Palestine - include...
The effects of the Israeli occupation Illegal settlements The Separation Wall Movement House demolitions Child prisoners The de-Arabisation of East Jerusalem
Children’s rights
DCI conference, Al-Najah University, Nablus
Qurtuba School, Hebron
Ofer Military Court, Juvenile Session
Treatment & Rehabilitation Centre for the Victims of Torture
Children’s Conference organised by DCI & An-Najah University
The photos don’t show it but there was excellent participation by
young people
We were not allowed to take our cameras into Ofer Military Court.The following images are from the internet...
23 January 2012
Letters 26 January
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/22/palestinian-children-detained-jail-israel?INTCMP=SRCH
TRC - Treatment & Rehabilitation Centre for the Victims of Torture
Next...
BASW Palestine Network Group Website IFSW Mirroring Norway-Palestine social work links Ongoing contact with social workers in
Palestine Knowledge exchanges Further visits and developing placement
opportunities Seminars, conferences, networking in the UK
Local connections
Tower Hamlets & Jenin Friendship Association www.thjfa.org.uk
Newham Jenin
Hackney - Beit Sourik
Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and its Tower Hamlets branch
Jane Lindsay, social work lecturer, Kingston University...
Further contact
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Thank you
Rupert Franklin & Guy Shennan
Contact - [email protected]