New draft of WHAT NEXT (following the video conference)

Please send comments quickly to contact@camdenabudis.net - Thanks

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We have found how much we share as Palestinian and British women

We want to maintain contact as individual women and women’s organisations

We want to organise further women’s visits and develop a future programme of shared activities between the two countries

We want to go on collecting women’s stories as this is important for the future. These are stories of our mothers, stories of our own generation and stories that affect our daughters

We want to challenge the assumptions built into the Balfour Declaration: it isn’t up to Britain to decide what happens in Palestine

We want to make British people aware of their country’s responsibility for what has happened in Palestine through leaflets, workshops, teaching packs

We want to work to heal the pain caused by the Balfour Declaration and Britain’s actions in Palestine which led to the immense suffering of Palestinian women under the Israeli occupation

We want to work together to raise the awareness of British women more widely about the human rights issues faced by Palestinian women

We want to promote the idea of twinning and friendship links between different places in Palestine and Britain and strengthen the links that there already are, so that people from both places can work together in an equal way to promote human rights for women and for everybody.

Video conference

A very big thank you to everyone who took part in the conference today. It was very special for us - the first time we had done anything like it - and it was brilliant to talk together about the Stories from our Mothers project and how it had gone, and about the future... There were lots of good ideas and here in Camden we hope that this is really NOT THE END (as we said in the book).

We hope we can put the good ideas into practice, and also that we can meet again in this way some time.

I thought you might like to see some pictures taken in London - Nandita