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Caritas Australia's free e-magazine, OzSpirit, this fortnight focuses on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. To learn more about this and other social justice issues in Australia and around the world, take a look at OzSpirit.
It is available at www.ozspirit.com or through the Caritas Australia web site, www.caritas.org.au, where you can subscribe on-line for free.
Around Australia
Applications for the 2008 Young Catholic Women’s Interfaith Fellowship are now open
The 2008 Young Women's Interfaith Fellowship is being held in Canberra at the Signadou Campus of the Australian Catholic University. The program is 15 weeks duration, commencing 1st February and concluding on the 18th May 2008. For further details contact Ruth Durick osu at fellowship.opw@catholic.org.au Applications close: Friday 7th September, 2007.
Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) working against the trafficking of women, children and men.
CRA's 180 members have pledge to "do what we can within our structures and ministries to promote justice and healing for victims of trafficking". The members have also agreed that CRA should take a "collective and public stance" against trafficking in women, children and men.
catholicreligiousaustralia.org
NSW: 19th Women, Management and Employment Relations Conference. Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney, 2 – 9 August 2007
Presented by Macquarie University and sponsored by HREOC, this leading women’s conference in Australia provides an annual audit of the issues confronting women in the workplace. Key themes in 2007: Employment relations; Finance and Superannuation; Leadership; Workplace flexibility. Key-note addresses by: Julia Gillard, MP and Nanda Pok, Founder and Executive Director of Women for Prosperity, Cambodia.
For more information see: www.lmsf.mq.edu.au, phone: 02 9850 8985 or email: pam.morpeth@efs.mq.edu.au
QLD: Exhibition, Broken Links: the Stolen Generations in Queensland, 1 May - 26 August 2007
The State Library of Queensland in Brisbane is displaying an exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the "Bringing Them Home" report into the Stolen Generations. Further information at: www.slq.qld.gov.au
For more events in Queensland subscribe to the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission's newsletter by contacting Peter Arndt at:
arndtp@bne.catholic.net.au
For more events around Australia subscribe to the Briefing papers from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, which can be viewed online at:
www.socialjustice.catholic.
org.au
International Days
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, 23 August 2007
portal.unesco.org
National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day, 4 August 2007
www.ncca.org.au
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, 9 August 2007
www.un.org
International youth Day, 12 August 2007
www.un.org
