Framfylkingen is the children and family organization of LO, The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. Framfylkingen is a democratic organization and we base our work on the UN convention on the rights of the child. The organization works to promote children’s rights on a local, national and international level. Framfylkingen includes children, youth and adults in the democratic processes in the organization, and children’s opinions are as important to in the organization as adults’.
Within the trade unions we have a long and strong tradition of showing solidarity with our Palestinian friends. Framfylkingen wants to raise awareness among our members about the conditions under which Palestinian youth and children are growing up. Children and youth are innocent parties in the conflict between adults, but still have to live with the consequences of the conflict. The bridges project will be an inspiring, interesting and meaningful project for friendship among our organizations!
Independence Youth Union
Who We Are
The Independence Youth Union is a social-democratic, educational movement that was established in 1992 after 18 years of working secretly due to the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation on Palestinian youth movements.
Our Mission
We aim to contribute to the development of Palestinian children and young people and make them more active and involved in Palestinian society.
Our Objectives
We support the struggle of women to achieve equal rights.
We aim to strengthen the role of youth in Palestinian community and their participation in decision making.
We educate the youth to be more open minded and to partially apply democratic values in the society.
Political Context
IYU politically, alongside their affiliate FIDA political party, adopt the same political line and agenda of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) that calls for the creation of an independent sovereign state called Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders with a just solution for refugees.
Our Activities
Volunteer works programmes
Non-formal activities with children and young people
Participating in national activities
Summer camps and workshops
Participating in all the social activities which defend the rights of students at Universities and doing everything we can to help them
Working and Studying Youth, the largest and most varied of all the youth movements in Israel, was founded in 1924 in what was still then Palestine by working young Jewish people, deprived and neglected, who organized themselves to defend their work and their rights.
Today the movement has hundreds of branches, centers and clubhouses throughout Israel, from Kiryat Shemona in the north to Eilat in the south. Tens of thousands of Jewish, Arab, and Druze young people are members; young people who work and study in the cities, development towns, kibbutzim and moshavim; affected young people and young immigrants.
The movement is also the legal representative of working young people in Israel. It deals with the organization, education, professional accompaniment, defense of rights, health and welfare of working youth. The labor union maintains a professional training network in cooperation with public and governmental institutes. The movement is active among thousands of young men and young women who have dropped out of the learning and work cycle, and operates learning centers and schools as part of the technological-educational network that was founded to provide an answer to the special needs of these youngsters.
The District Fellows Movement is the 16-20 year old members of the co-operative educational youth charity, the woodcraft folk, whose ideology is based on the principles of equality, peace, social justice and co-operation, with an emphasis on the empowerment of young people.
DF meetings usually consist of a group of like minded individuals meeting up at a regular time and place (someone's house, or a pub for instance, or even a community hall if the group is large enough) and taking part in usual woodcraft activities. These activities range from co-operative games, orgainising events, workshops and discussions, and general socialising!
The DF movement also meets up on a national basis frequently, to hold both social, educational events and business events allowing everyone to be involved in the running of DF's...
Old/New: 8th to 10th October
Blank Canvas: 29th to 31st October
Midlands Thing: 3rd to 5th November
