Forthcoming Events




*Recent Annual Report*
*Recent Human Rights Report*
*Kids 4 The Planet*
*Look at our Lives*
*Old Skills New Skills*
*Partner Twinning Groups*
*Visit Palestine with CADFA*
*Volunteer in Palestine*

Saturday 4 February, 7.30-11pm: INTERNATIONAL FOOD EVENING. See flyer below. £18 on door, or click below for £15 tickets in advance.
International Food Evening pdf

April 2012 Would you like to VISIT PALESTINE IN APRIL? Click here for leaflet and here for application form.

NOTE: Open meeting is always on 3rd Tuesday of month. To join mailing list pls write to contact@camdenabudis.net.

 

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This website was last updated on:

29 January 2012

Welcome to the
Camden Abu Dis
Friendship Association

Promoting human rights and respect for international humanitarian law in Abu Dis, Palestine.

Charity No.1112717

28 January: 'Prisoner march' in Camden
17 January: Launch of Save the schools, protect the people, end the E1 settlement project
1 January 2012: HAPPY NEW YEAR
31 December: Group 1 of EVS volunteers now back and Group 2 on their way to Abu Dis
20 December: Human Rights Day event in Camden
17 December: Prisoner Exchange: 27 Abu Dis prisoners released including Mohammed Saleh Mohsen and all Abu Dis child prisoners
10 December: Human Rights Day event at Dar Assadaqa, Abu Dis
27 November: Salah Ayyad
26 November: Twinning Conference in Liverpool
19 November: Exhibition opening and twinning workshop for students
10-21 November: 'Look at our Lives' student visit to London
13 October: Solidarity with hunger striking prisoners in Camden and Abu Dis
3 October: Dar Assadaqa rennovations begin
2 October: Demo in Abu Dis in support of Palestinian prisoners on their seventh day of hunger strike - article, video, pictures
2 September: First volunteers begin to prepare for EVS in Palestine.
30 August: Eid Mubarak
10 August: Abu Dis students prepare to visit Britain
1 August: Al Quds student killed on first Ramadan
30 July: Good news about CADFA volunteer project
25 July: CADFA AGM
23 July: CADFA summer visit to Palestine begins
June/July: Progress on child prisoner campaign
16-27 June: CADFA's sixth youth visit from Palestine
5 June: Preparing for the youth visit
May 2011: Child prisoners' campaign: 800 signatures to date and still collecting – click here for letter and please return by 14th June
25 April: CADFA at Twinning Conference in Palestine
Saturday 9 April: Camden teachers' visit to Abu Dis - click here, here [Arabic] and here
2 April: CADFA conference
17 March: Bedouin in Abu Dis given house demolition orders
16 March: More Abu Dis land to be confiscated by the Israeli military
3-10 March - CADFA women's visit from Palestine
1 March: Update from child prisoner campaign - click here for letter to sign
19-27 February - CADFA visit to Abu Dis/ Palestine
7 February: Ken Loach benefit for CADFA - click here and here for news articles
25 January: Walid Sharaf (17) taken to hospital from Israeli jail in critical state and family not informed
9 January: Celebration in Abu Dis for release of Ahmed Salah, student from Al Quds University who had been in prison for 3 and a half years
January 2011: Israelis refuse all permission for pregnant women from Abu Dis to go to hospital in Jerusalem
30 December: many people held for hours and beaten at military checkpoint put up by Israeli soldiers in middle of Abu Dis
29 December: Sound bombs thrown by Israeli soldiers into Abu Dis Boys' School yard
26 December: Bulldozer kills youth on Israeli rubbish dump Abu Dis - click here for Al Quds and here for English translation
10 December – Human Rights Day Concert pictures
6 December – Child needing longterm medical care arrested by Israeli army who would not take his medicine for him
27 November – Britain Palestine Twinning Network Conference in Bristol
25 November - Poetry for Palestine
24 November – Camden and Tower Hamlets visit from Palestine
24 November – Messages between the Mayor of Abu Dis and Camden
24 November - UN Children's Day Celebration, Maria Fidelis School
4th November: 3 more child prisoners in Abu Dis
16th October: CADFA tour of West Bank begins
2nd October: Stories from our Mothers book launch in Palestine.
25th September: Stories from our Mothers Camden book launch photo gallery
19th September: Another 13-year-old boy arrested in Abu Dis
19th September: Ben Whitaker runs half-marathon for Shehadeh Mohsen Diabetic Clinic. Click below to donate:
16th-19th September: Spate of child arrests in Abu Dis
15th September: 13-year old boy from Abu Dis imprisoned
1st September: For urgent action: Pls see attached and take action on behalf of Mohammad Halabiyeh
15th August: Army violence in Abu Dis
11th August: Ramadan Kareem
10th August: CADFA update
18th July: CADFA BBQ
July/August: CADFA at Camden summer fairs - here at Kentish Town Festival - look at about 6.15
5-28th July: 5th Dar Assadaqa summer camp
29th June: Certificates given out from Dar Assadaqa's first embroidery course
11th-21st June: Youth visit from Abu Dis to Camden
May 29th: CADFA statement on Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla
April 24th: CADFA conference 2010
April 17th: Palestinian prisoners’ day
April 5-13th: CADFA spring tour of Palestine
17th March: Wounded boy beaten by Israeli soldiers till both legs broken
16th March: Very hot in the West Bank...
3-11th March: Palestinian women join the Stories from our Mothers visit to Britain
8th March: Stories from our Mothers Workshop at SOAS
Beginning of March: Dozens of Palestinian children arrested in the Jerusalem area
20-21st February: CADFA Palestine weekend in Camden
February: “Young Film Makers for Human Rights” project starts with planning visit to Camden and arrangements for youth film clubs in Camden and Abu Dis
7th February: Israeli soldiers broke leg of Abu Dis boy as they beat and arrested him
2nd February: House demolition order in Abu Dis: please help
30th January: Israeli soldiers invade Abu Dis shops, beat customers
7th January 2010: Young Film Makers for Human Rights project confirmed!
21st December: Israelis arrest Abu Dis boy whom they shot in September
21st November: “Diabetes Day” at the Shehadeh Mohsen clinic. Al-Quds report
20th November: Launch of “For Hammam” CADFA youth handbook about human rights in Palestine
18th-25th November: Visitors from Abu Dis to London to join the Twinning with Palestine conference
7th November: Official opening of Shehadeh Mohsen clinic
31st October-8th November: Stories from our Mothers visit to Palestine
17th October: Shehadeh Mohsen clinic opens, Abu Dis
17th October: Celebration of CADFA’s 5th birthday
26th September: Abu Dis boy shot in the leg by Israel army
22nd September: Eid Mubarak!
September 09: Film of CADFA youth visit ready and will be shown on 17th September
15-20 August: Planning visit to Abu Dis for Stories from our Mothers project




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