Britain Palestine Project

Visit www.balfourproject.org/abandoningpalestine to see all audio and visual recordings, as well as the conference guidebook.

Visit www.balfourproject.org/abandoningpalestine to see all audio and visual recordings, as well as the conference guidebook.

Visit www.balfourproject.org/abandoningpalestine to see all audio and visual recordings, as well as the conference guidebook.

Visit www.balfourproject.org/abandoningpalestine to see all audio and visual recordings, as well as the conference guidebook.

Visit www.balfourproject.org/abandoningpalestine to see all audio and visual recordings, as well as the conference guidebook.

Visit www.balfourproject.org/abandoningpalestine to see all audio and visual recordings, as well as the conference guidebook.

Visit www.balfourproject.org/abandoningpalestine to see all audio and visual recordings, as well as the conference guidebook.

with Lana Ramadan from Save the Children, Ramallah and lawyers Jude Lanchin and Tareq Shrourou 

Lana Ramadan is the Advocacy and Campaigns Senior Office at Save the Children International oPt country office. Lana has extensive technical expertise and knowledge on the detention file in the oPt context. She worked for several Palestinian human rights organizations before joining SCI, including Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association as well as Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights. Lana has a Master’s Degree in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well a BA in International Law and Human Rights from the Al-Quds Bard College.

Jude Lanchin qualified as a solicitor in 1994, after a career in community-based work. For a number of years, she worked with the young people on the North London Broadwater Farm Estate who were charged after the 1985 riot. She subsequently established and ran a community project in Islington for former prisoners.

Tareq Shrourou is Executive Director & Principal Lawyer of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR), a UK legal charity that works on legal projects to protect and promote Palestinian human rights. Before joining LPHR as its first executive director, Tareq worked as a solicitor specialising in asylum and human rights law, and co-managed the public legal advice service of the UK human rights organisation, Liberty. He holds an LLM in Public International Law from King’s College London.

Ali Awad is a 22 year-old activist from the village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills.

Online talk given in March2022. 

Abbas Milhem is the current Executive Director (since 2014) of the Palestinian Farmers’ Union, providing technical guidance and full supervision on project development and implementation processes for the 14 branches of the Union across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Abbas previously worked with the Sudan Civil Society and Youth Participation (CSDY) Program as a Country Director for Sundan, the International Republican Institute (IRI) Sudan, Arab-Americare Foundation, Health, Development, Information, and Policy Institute (HDIP), Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy (PCPD), and the Palestinian Child Cultural Center. Abbas has a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from Bethlehem University.