Women's links

Linking together for human rights

Palestinian women’s voices tour 2023

Posted on February 1, 2023 by CADFA / Leave a response

Our annual international women’s day tour will take place this year between 9th and 21st March – We have invited eleven Palestinian women to join in International Women’s Day events across the country. The visit is still being designed but will include visits to London, Bristol, Manchester and many more. Contact us to help arrange it – contact@cadfa.org Follow this link to help raise the funds Look back here for more up-to-date … Read More →

Snapshots from a women’s visit to Palestine

Posted on December 1, 2022 by CADFA / Leave a response

The CADFA women’s visit to Palestine in November brought together twelve women from all over Britain and took them for a week of activities with women in the University and town of Abu Dis, meetings with women (and others) in the centre and south of the West Bank. Lots of seeing, learning and discussion. It was lovely to meet women friends old and new but very difficult to see that the pressures … Read More →

A sad international women’s day

Posted on March 9, 2022 by CADFA / Leave a response

It was a sad international women’s day event yesterday as the speakers from Abu Dis were talking on the day that a 14-year old, Yamin Jaffal, had been buried; he was shot by an Israeli soldier two days ago in the middle of Abu Dis. We dedicated this evening to his mother. Fathea (pictured) and Abeer told people that as a Palestinian woman you will be the wife or mother … Read More →

Six more months of lockdown

Posted on September 23, 2020 by CADFA / Leave a response

CADFA resources are available now for anyone interested in human rights, Palestine, the lives of ordinary people living under Corona as well as occupation. Six months of CADFA human rights reports: March and April 2020 May 2020 June 2020 July 2020 August 2020 CADFA women’s magazine published in June CADFA resources page on this website

“It was a big time commitment – but worth it.”/ “I learnt more than I thought possible”

Posted on August 26, 2020 by CADFA / Leave a response

Thank you very much to our lovely visitors for the excellent feedback that they gave from our virtual visit to Palestine in August. Every one of them said that it exceeded their expectations and that they had learned a lot. We also expected less – because it was a virtual visit – than was in the end achieved. Now we are encouraged to do another one! And we are inviting applications. We asked our … Read More →

A real twinning magazine

Posted on June 17, 2020 by CADFA / Leave a response

The days of lockdown have pushed many people into Zoom communication, and CADFA women’s links has gone the same way! We found it GREAT as a way to bring a number of women together in Palestine and the UK – all of us keen to link up across the lockdown – and this bilingual magazine (warning, it is long, though there are many pictures!) is the result of our co-operation. … Read More →