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Trade Justice
A Way out of Poverty
Imagine a game of Snakes and Ladders between two children where one player can make the rules. That player, no doubt, would make sure that they could go up the snakes as well as the ladders. They would make the other player go down the ladders as well as the snakes.
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Farmers launch free trade campaign
A group of international farmers has l au nched a global campaign for free trade in agriculture, calling for cuts to agricultural subsidies and increases in market access. The Age
Anti-poverty goals receding
The Director of the UN Millennium Project has warned that anti-poverty goals are unlikely to be met by their 2015 deadline unless donor countries talk less and focus more on action to change poverty. IPS News
Plan for radical changes to UN
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has proposed reforms aimed at strengthening the United Nations ability to deal with threats to global peace. The changes include increasing the number of member states in the Security Council and guidelines on the use of preventative military action. Special Broadcasting Service
Archbishop supports equality for gay couples
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson has given support to a South Australian Parliamentary Bill giving homosexual couples access to rights including property, superannuation and medical laws. The Bill will bring South Australian into line with other states. Catholic News
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Ethical Consumerism
The availability of fair trade products - and the labelling these products for mainstream marketing - is on the increase around the world. Yet, Australia is lagging behind in these initiatives. Choice
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Kofi Annan: My strategy for UN reform
"There is no longer any excuse for leaving well over a billion of our fellow human beings in abject misery. All that is needed is some clear decisions by the governments of rich as well as poor countries."
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Go Fair Trade Shopping!
The Good Shepherd Trading Circle is a non-profit company helping women in developing countries to trade their way out of poverty. Unique gifts and special products can be purchased online or through stores in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
http://www.goodshepherd.com.au/trading/ 
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Documentary: The Lynndie England Story
SBS TV
8.30pm Tuesday April 5
This program provides a profile of the young US reservist soldier, Lynndie England , who posed in photographs with abused Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. The documentary features interviews with Lynndie, her mother and sister and suggests the abuse of prisoners was ordered from above.
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Let us pray:
We believe in God the Creator,
loving parent of all who live.
We believe in Jesus Christ,
dying so that all may live.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
sanctifier of all life.
God, inspired by your love for us and your Word to us
and empowered by your Holy Spirit
we resolve, through our words and action
to respect and uphold the dignity
of every person with whom we share this planet.
May your kingdom come
and may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen
- Sr Suzette Clark
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 "Walk for Water"
The students of Catholic College Wodonga, NSW and Our Lady of the Way, Petrie, QLD supported Project Compassion by holding a Caritas K's 'walk for water' fundraiser. The event helped the students understand what village people in many countries experience just to collect water for their daily needs.
Project Compassion reminder
As the Lenten season concludes, Caritas Australia has issued a reminder to supporters to return their donations "on behalf of those suffering the crushing effects of poverty throughout the world."
Caritas Internationalis defends HIV AIDS work
Caritas Internationalis has sent a letter of protest to the editor of the British medical journal The Lancet to correct recently published misinterpretations of the Church's struggle against AIDS.
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