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Northern Territory Elders meet in Melbourne

Concerned Australians in conjunction with the Office for Justice and Peace, recently hosted Indigenous Elders from the Northern Territory to discuss the Northern Territory Intervention.

Click here to download Statement by Northern Territory Elders and Community Representatives: No More! Enough is enough!
(4th November 2011)

 

2011 RERUM NOVARUM ORATION

Almost 600 people packed Central Hall, Fitzroy to hear Bishop Vincent Long van Nguyen and the Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser discuss a just solution for asylum seekers

 

Listen to speakers

[HERE]

 

 

Further information / inquiries:

justice @cam.org.au

 

2011 Social Justice Statment

BUILDING BRIDGES NOT WALLS

prisons and the justice system

Launch

Thursday 15th September 2011

12 noon

 

Cathedral Room
Cardinal Knox Centre
383 Albert Street
East Melbourne

 

 

 

 


We stand in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters on their pilgrimage in search of faith and justice.

"The past cannot be undone, but honest recognition of past injustices can lead to measures and attitudes which will help to rectify the damaging effects for both the indigenous community and the wider society."

Ecclesia in Oceania
Pope John Paul II

Online petition regarding the NT intervention

Navi Pillay, a former South Africa High Court Judge, is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She will visit Australia in May.

This follows several years of criticism regarding Australia’s poor human rights record and last year’s visit to Geneva by Aboriginal elders who raised the Northern Territory Intervention with the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

The Northern Territory Intervention imposed in June 2007, without consultation or the consent of Aboriginal people, continues to be a source of grave injustice. It has overridden the rights of the people, placed their culture and languages in jeopardy while removing their control over their land and communities.

[Sign the online petetion here]


2010 Rerum Novarum Lecture
by Joan Healy RSJ


Read the full text

[Download here]

 

Launch of the
2010 Australian Catholic Bishops'
Social Justice Sunday Statement

VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA
A Message of Peace
The Very Rev Fr Tony Kerin,
Episcopal Vicar for Justice
and Social Services

 

STAND UP DAY 2010

Millions around the world STAND UP in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York from 20-22 September 2010
to accelerate progress towards the MDGs. 
We ask you to plan a Stand Up day activity
for ANY day in the week
Monday 13th  – Sunday 19th  September. 


[ more here ]




"It remains an obligation in justice and the service of human dignity to attain and even surpass the Millennium Development Goals"
Cardinal Angelo Sodano
Vatican Secretary of State

For further information
phone (03) 99265710
or
email justice@cam.org.au

 



Carolyn Merry rode from Sydney to Melbourne, supported by the Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) to highlight the incidence of human trafficking throughout the world including into Australia

Further Information contact Carolyn at:

c.merry@cycleagainstthetraffik.com

 

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

THE PATH TO PEACE

2011 World Peace Day Message of

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI

[Download full text here]

 

 

 


We stand in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters on their pilgrimage in search of faith and justice.

"The past cannot be undone, but honest recognition of past injustices can lead to measures and attitudes which will help to rectify the damaging effects for both the indigenous community and the wider society."

Ecclesia in Oceania
Pope John Paul II

“This Is What We Said”
Australian Aboriginal people give their views on the Northern Territory Intervention



[ORDER FORM HERE]

 

Pope Benedict XVI's third encyclical Caritas in Veritate urges a renewal of the global financial order based on "an ethics which is people centred" with the goal of common good

[more here]

 

 

AFRICAN AUSTRALIANS

The Justice and Peace Office in conjunction with the Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office is holding a series of meetings to gather information on the settlement experiences of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from Africa.

Everyone is welcome

Saint Anthony’s Parish, Noble Park


Pierre Kazadi, Jean-Claude Mutumbo & Tewelde Kidane

 

FAIR TRADE

Nearly half the world's chocolate is made from cocoa grown in the Cote D'Ivoire, in Africa.

Thousands of children have been trafficked into cocoa farms in Cote D'Ivoire. When we buy chocolate we are being forced to be oppressors ourselves as we do not know that the chocolate we eat is 'traffik free'.


Child labour in the Ivory Coast


Fair Trade Easter Eggs

Stop the Traffik Australia is encouraging consumers to ask chocolate manufacturers to sign up to the Stop the Traffik ‘Traffik Free Chocolate Pledge'

Visit the Stop the Traffik website [ here ]

STOP PRESS:

Launch of Fair Trade Clerical Collars
Rev. Jason Kioa (Uniting Church Victoria) Anglican Bishop Phillip Huggins and Fr Bob Maguire, holding Fair Trade Easter eggs and wearing Clerical Shirts made under the Fair Trade label

 


BENENSON SOCIETY IS BORN

Returning to its fundamental principle of protecting human rights, Sydney School Principal, Fr Chris Midelton SJ has formed the Benenson Society, named in honour of Catholic Lawyer,
Peter Benenson - founder of Amnesty International.

Find out more about the Society, and join online at

www.BenensonSociety.org


Benenson Society

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL alienates Catholic membership [More] [Further]

Vatican becomes the
"World's First Carbon Neutral State" [More here]
Pope gets top Green Rating [More here]

Further details on any of these events can be obtained by contacting the Office for Justice and Peace on (03) 9926 5710 or justice@cam.org.au