Brigidine College

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Year 9 Religious Education
Social Justice

	Choose your theme from the Global Education site. It examines issues such as Environment, Education, Children’s Rights, Human Rights, Food Security, Refugees and water issues. http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page1.html
World Wide Web Links Catholic Church’s Teaching Organisations that are concerned with social justice issues The Issues General global issues sites Food East Timor Tibet Sudan – Darfur Water Children’s Rights Indigenous Issues Women’s Rights Refugees and asylum seekers Environment – Global Warming Animal Extinction Rainforest Degradation Climate Justice Human Trafficking HIV in Africa Poverty	RESOURCES Online Databases: Encyclopaedia Britannica No password is necessary while using the database within the college network Electric Library The password can be obtained from the library staff or from the database brochure at the circulation desk in the library Book or Magazine Resources : Current Information Services - online index compliments that hard copy of the periodicals Current Social Issues and Current Environmental Issues that are housed in the library. A very good resource is the Issues in Society series which includes titles such as “Poverty”, “The Homeless”, “Child Abuse”, “Refugees”, “Unemployment” etc. The companion website is http://www.spinneypress.com.au/further_links.html Look also for the publications : “Inform: faith & life matters”, “Justice Trends” and “Social Action” The Catholic Leader Contains selected articles from the newspaper, along with useful links to Catholic documents, Catholic media in Australia and overseas.
	What does the Catholic Church say about social justice Australian Catholic Social Justice Council http://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/Content/issues/risking_all_in_search_for_human_rights.html Theology Library Social Justice http://web2.shc.edu/theolibrary/justice.htm Catholic Social Teaching http://web.archive.org/web/19990504090044/www.catholic-action.org/catholic-action/cst.htm Church Documents on Social Justice http://www.silk.net/RelEd/justdocs.htm Has links to a number of relevant documents. Workplace Reforms a Catholic perspective http://www.mn.catholic.org.au/newsroom/auroraissues/aurora60_story8.htm Vatican http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm The official web site of the Holy See. Enter a search term in the search box to find official documents on Catholic doctrines. Australian Jesuits Views on Social Issues and Human Rights http://home.vicnet.net.au/~cardoner/ripples.html National Council of Churches . Statements on racism, homeless people, poverty and employment http://www.ncca.org.au/departments/social_justice_network/issues/racism Organisations The following is a list of local and national bodies which either promote or are active participation in social justice, eco-justice, peace issues and have some Catholic connection or involvement. Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office http://www.acmro.catholic.org.au/index.htm Edmund Rice Centre Conduct and encourage research into the causes of poverty and inequity in society. Researches into subjects such as asylum seekers and environmental justice. Search under “Publications” http://www.erc.org.au/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=2:2 The Trading Circle. Good Shepherd Sisters http://www.goodshepherd.com.au/trading/ Helping women trade their way out of poverty Caritas.The Catholic Agency for International Aid and Development http://www.caritas.org.au/ Pax Christie International. Catholic Peace Movement is a non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues in the fields of human rights, security and disarmament, economic justice and ecology. http://www.paxchristi.net/work/ Catholic Earthcare Australia http://www.catholicearthcareoz.net/ Social Action Office. Concerns itself with industrial relations, indigenous issues, poverty and climate change http://www.sao.clriq.org.au/ National Council of Churches in Australia http://www.ncca.org.au/departments/social_justice_network/issues/racism Catholic Mission For more than 180 years the Mission has been working to achieve ‘Life for all’ in more than 160 countries http://www.catholicmission.org.au/ Centre for Concern. Hailed for gender work has offered moral vision and provided effective leadership in the struggle to end hunger, poverty, environmental decline, and injustice in the United States and around the world. http://www.coc.org/index.fpl/1264/article/1709.html Jesuit social services http://www.jss.org.au/ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Catholic Commission http://www.natsicc.org.au/ Brisbane Action web for Refugee collaboration The website for anyone who care about refugees and http://www.barc.org.au/cms/index.php St. Vincent De Paul www.vinnies.org.au/index.cfm?state=qld Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission http://www.uq.net.au/cjpc/index.html Refugee Claimants Support Centre – Brisbane http://www.refugees.org.au Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office http://www.acmro.catholic.org.au/media/index.htm Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre http://www.uniya.org.au Rosies Youth Mission http://www.rosies.org.au Centacare Brisbane http://www.centacarebrisbane.net.au Australian Catholic Commission for Employment relations http://www.accer.asn.au
General List of World Wide Web sites that contain information on social justice issues.	General Social Issues Sites World Vision Australia. Global issues including Children, Poverty, Peace and the Environment http://www.worldvision.com.au/learn/schoolResources/globalissues.asp Ozspirit. Various social justice topics http://www.ozspirit.com/archives.html New Internationalist http://www.newint.org/ Scroll right down in the left-hand box to ‘Search’. Click on ‘Search this website’, and enter your search term eg ‘poverty’. Australian Catholic Social Justice Council. Some issues are : environment, employment, racism, and poverty http://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/Content/issues.html Australian Council of Social Service. Look for publications on various social justice issues such as employment http://www.acoss.org.au/ Dropping off the edge. The Distribution of disadvantage in Australia http://www.catholicwelfare.com.au Human Rights Web What are Human Rights? http://www.hrweb.org Global Issues http://www.globalissues.org Global Education The site aims to raise awareness and understanding among Australian school students of international issues, development and poverty http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/jsp/index.jsp Human Rights around the Globe 1000s of websites on human rights issues http://www.hreoc.gov.au/info_for_students/links/index.html Human Rights Watch Information by country http://www.hrw.org Oxfam Australia http://www.oxfam.org.au Make Poverty History http://www.makepovertyhistory.org.au/campaign_materials.aspx UNICEF http://www.unicef.org One World Net promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide http://www.oneworld.net World Watch Institute Vision for a sustainable world http://www.worldwatch.org
Children’s Rights	Children State of the World’s Children. UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/sowc02 Child Labour. UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_childlabour.html Child Labour the facts http://www.newint.org/issue292/facts.html Child Labour. New Internationalist http://www.newint.org/issue292/content.html Children and human rights http://www.amnesty.org/en/children Children’s Rights http://www.humanrights.gov.au/info_for_students/children/index.html Save the children http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk/jsp/newhome.jsp?flash=true Child soldiers http://www.ozspirit.com/2003/34.html Child Labour. ICFTU. Has a poster and flyer that could be used for the display http://www.icftu.org/focus.asp?Issue=childlabour&Language=EN Child Soldiers : Amnesty International http://web.amnesty.org/pages/childsoldiers-index-eng Children of Conflict. BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/soldier.shtml Child Soldiers an affront to humanity http://www.un.org/rights/concerns.htm#soldiers Child Soldiers. Giving a voice to children affected by war http://www.childsoldiers.org/home Facts about Children and Poverty http://www.care.org/campaigns/childrenpoverty/facts.asp
Women’s Rights	Women’ s Rights Women’s Human Rights Net http://www.whrnet.org Women’s rights global issues http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/WomensRights.asp Stop violence against women http://www.amnesty.org/en/campaigns/stop-violence-against-women Human Rights Watch : women’s rights http://hrw.org/women United Nations Development Fund for women http://www.unifem.org Women Watch http://www.un.org/womenwatch Ending violence against women and girls http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2000/english/ch03.html
Human Trafficking	Human Trafficking Human Trafficking http://www.humantrafficking.org On human trafficking brochure http://www.humantrafficking.org Don’t trade lives http://www.donttradelives.com.au/dtl/Issues/default.aspx USCCB on Human Trafficking http://www.usccb.org/mrs/traffickingweb.shtml Act Now : Human Trafficking http://www.actnow.com.au/Issues/Human_trafficking.aspx Human Trafficking Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking Anti-Slavery Project http://www.antislavery.org.au/slavery/index.html Child Trafficking http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_exploitation.html Human Trafficking in Asia http://www.worldvision.com.au/learn/policyandreports/files/PeopleTrafficking.pdf Women’s rights trafficking http://www.hrw.org/women/trafficking.html
Asylum Seekers Refugees	Refugees Global Education. Refugees http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/go/pid/182#Facts Dept of Immigration and Citizenship http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/index.htm Questions and Answers about refugees and asylum seekers http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/face_facts/atsi.html One World Refugees Guide http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/refugees The Refugee Council of Australia http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au Refugee Claimant Support Centre http://www.refugees.org.au Myths about Refugees http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/arp/facts-02.html Refugees Camps – women and children at risk. Ozspirit Caritas http://www.ozspirit.com/2006/148b.html Debunking the myths about asylum seekers. Edmund Rice Centre Dept. of Immigration and Citizenship http://www.immi.gov.au The Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) http://www.fecca.org.au/ Children in Immigration Detention Refugees and Asylum http://www.derechos.net/links/issues/refu.html Basic Facts Refugees. UN Refugee Agency http://www.unhcr.org/basics.html Refugees Camps – women and children at risk. Ozspirit Caritas http://www.ozspirit.com/2006/148b.html Debunking the myths about asylum seekers http://www.erc.org.au/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=64
Indigenous Issues	Stolen Generation Indigenous education Deaths in Custody Indigenous poverty Indigenous health National Close the Gap Day http://www.oxfam.org.au/events/close-the-gap-day Racism no way. The Stolen Generations http://www.racismnoway.com.au/classroom/factsheets/52.html ABS Indigenous statistics Indigenous issues links http://www.spinneypress.com.au/indigenous_race_links.html Australian Indigenous Health Net http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) Indigenous Health http://www.aihw.gov.au/indigenous/health/index.cfm ABS Indigenous Statistics. Health Indigenous Health. Aust Gov Indigenous Statistics. ABS Indigenous Education. Aust. Gov. http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/indigenous_education Indigenous Education Useful links to Indigenous Educational websites http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/indigenous_education/related_websites Reconciliation Australia http://www.reconciliationaustralia.org/i-cms.isp Australian Aborigines http://www.derechos.net/links/issues/aborig.html Indigenous Health Campaign http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/health/index.html Face the Facts Questions and Answers about Indigenous People http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/face_facts/atsi.html Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Social Justice. http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/index.html Use the links on the left hand side of the page Bringing them home Learning about the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families http://www.hreoc.gov.au/bth/index.html Indigenous Poverty http://www.ncca.org.au/natsiec/indigenous%20_poverty Racism no way! http://www.racismnoway.com.au/ What is racial discrimination? http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/index.html The right to education http://www.unicef.org/teachers/learner/right.htm
HIV in Africa Sudan - Darfur	HIV in Africa HIV Aids. Global Education About Aids. AFAO http://www.afao.org.au/index.asp Global Issues: Aids and HIV http://www.globalissues.org/health/aids Aids in Africa http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/AIDS.asp Children HIV and AIDS http://www.unicef.org/aids/index.php UN Aids http://www.unaids.org/en HIV and Aids in Africa http://www.avert.org/aidsinafrica.htm WHO (World Health Organisation), HIV and Aids http://www.who.int/hiv/en World’s Aids Day http://www.worldaidsday.org.au South Africa : rural women the losers in HIV response http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/rural-women-hit-south-africas-hiv-response-20080318 Sudan - Darfur Sudan a nation divided http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/africa/2004/sudan/default.stm The Sudan : refugees Sudan http://www.derechos.net/links/geo/africa/sudan.html Africa: Human Rights http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/hurights.html Darfur : Teaching about the issues http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/darfur/?42
Climate Justice	Climate Justice De bunking the myths about climate change http://www.erc.org.au/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=29 Climate change - our neighbours future http://www.erc.org.au/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=95 Social impacts of climate change http://www.cana.net.au/socialimpacts Impacts on the Pacific and other small island states http://www.cana.net.au/socialimpacts/global/small-island-states.html Climate Change. Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org.au/campaigns/climate-change/impacts Climate change and development roundtable http://www.ccdr.org.au Environmental and Global Issues Links http://www.spinneypress.com.au/global_issues_links.html Who’s is on the front line of climate change. Poster http://www.foe.org.au/resources/leaflets/ClimatePoster.pdf Climate change and disaster’s overview IDS.AC.UK Climate Change Guide . One World Net. http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/climatechange Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.org.au Climate Refugees http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/climate-refugees Climate change and global warming http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming.asp Human face of climate change http://unfcccbali.com/2007/12/10/the-human-face-of-climate-change King Tide pummels Kiribati http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/king-tide-pummels-kiribati Delicate Island Home – Kiribati http://www.ausaid.gov.au/closeup/island_home.cfm Climate could devastate crops http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7220807.stm
Global Warming	Global Warming FAQs. For example. What causes it? http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/global-warming-faq.html What are greenhouse gases? http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggccebro/chapter1.html Climate Change and global warming http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming.asp Effects of global warming. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming Global Warming will have the most severe effect on the world’s poor http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/11/27/climate-report.html Global Warming and Food Security http://www.climate.org/2002/topics/agricul/index.shtml The top 100 effects of global warming http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html Timeline : the frightened future of earth http://www.livescience.com/environment/070419_earth_timeline.html Global Warming and the Kyoto Protocol http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/ern/01jul/overview.php The health effects of global warming http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2007/issue2/0207p48.htm
East Timor Tibet	East Timor United Nations. East Timor http://www.un.org/av/photo/etimor.htm East Timor’s displaced BBC News East Timor http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1508119.stm East Timor Crisis. Australian Parliamentary Library http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/fad/fadtimor.htm Tibet Tibet