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Caritas Australia's free e-magazine, OzSpirit, this fortnight focuses on Peace and human security. 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

International Day of Peace, 21 September 2007
All United Nations member countries agreed that September 21, the International Day of Peace, should be observed as a Global Ceasefire and day of nonviolence. (United Nations Resolution 55/282). Contact your local councils to find out what is happening on this day in your local area.

Social Justice Sunday, 30 September 2007

The title for this years social Justice Sunday statement is "Who Is My Neighbour?
Australia's role as a global citizen".To read the statement click here

World Food Day, 16 October 2007
World food Day highlights the need to ensure that all people have physical and economic access at all times to enough nutritious, safe food to lead healthy and active lives. Contact your local council to find out what is happening in your neighbourhood.

NSW: Iddid Djura: Photographic Exhibition, 4 - 27 September 20087
Members of the public are invited to a wonderful Photographic Exhibition to be held in the Fountain Court, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney, from 4 -27 September 2007. The exhibition, by Sarah George focuses on the life and stories of Big Bill Neidjie and the people and culture of West Arnhem.

QLD:Be Part of the Global
Activities on Peace Day 2007,
September 21

www.refugeecouncil.org.au

NSW: Sunday Seminar: Should Australia go Nuclear?", 16 September Catholics in Coalition for Justice and Peace would like to invite you to this seminar by Dr Sue Wareham, immediate Past President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) Australia. She will consider whether Aboriginal land is likely to be used for a nuclear waste dump. Cost: $10.
9.45am-12noon, 9 Alexandra Ave. Croydon. For further info contact (02) 9745 0820

www.ccjpoz.org

QLD: Griffith University International Day of Peace, 17  September 2007
International Day of Peace - Griffith University Multi-Faith Centre, 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m., prayers, music, performances, lunch.  Please RSVP by September 15 to 3735 7052 or e-mail mfc@Griffith.edu.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

ACT: Conference, 60th Anniversary of the First Australian Peace Keeping operation in Indonesia, 13 - 14 September 2007
Peace keepers, academics from Australia and overseas, and those writing the official history of peacekeeping will give papers on the changing nature of peacekeeping in the modern world. For further info contact Dr Walter Kudrycz,
Military History Section, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, on 02 6243 4334. More

ACT: Public Lecture: Child Soldiers and International Law, 27 September 2007
The Centre for International and Public Law, ANU College of Law, The Australian
National University and IHL Committee, and Australian Red Cross ACT present a public lecture by Assoc. Prof. Steven Freeland of the University of Western Sydney. Since 1977, a number of legal instruments have proposed standards to prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict. These standards have been too weak. It is necessary not only to 'upgrade' these standards
but to use criminal sanctions in an effort to provide a more efficient legal regime to combat the issue. From 5.30pm, Law Theatre, Bldg 5, ANU College of Law, Fellows Road. More

WA: Public forum - China's economy and human rights, 17 September 2007
At a public forum to be held at the university of Western Australia, International experts will discuss current issues that have global repercussions. This forum will address issues pertaining to contemporary developments in China, including the status of human rights. More

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