About Le Anne Clausen Expertise I can answer questions about human rights work as a vocation, human rights as they pertain to the Middle East and/or Muslim world, particularly Palestine/Israel, Iraq, and Afghanistan. While in Iraq, I helped to investigate prisoner abuses, including those at Abu Ghraib. I can also answer questions on women's rights in the Middle East. I cannot give you legal advice.
Experience I was a human rights worker for four years in the Middle East, including Palestine, Israel, and Iraq. I also participated in a human rights delegation to Afghanistan in summer 2005. I have an MA in Christian-Muslim relations, with special study on women's issues; I also worked one year for an Arab women's grassroots human rights organization. I am currently working to build an interfaith peace-teams based human rights organization
Publications "Be the Healers" (considering next steps for addressing the Abu Ghraib scandal), July 2004 edition, "The Lutheran" magazine.
Also: www.christian-muslim.net; www.young-activist.blogspot.com; additional interviews and articles about me are available via Google search.
Question hi!
how can i right letters or correspond with palestinian prisoners held in israel?
Answer Hi Michal,
I think your best bet would be to contact either Amnesty International (www.amnesty.org), who specializes in writing letters ot political prisoners around the world, or I may also recommend to you the Coalition of Women for a Just Peace (www.cwjp.org)--which is a group of women, Palestinian, Israeli, and others, working together in Jerusalem and other cities on such issues. They may at least be able to point you in the right direction locally.
Good luck to you! It's great that you are thinking of the prisoners, who are quite cut off from friends and family.
