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 - guyshennan@sfpractice.co.uk