Brigidine College

Library Pathfinder

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Social Justice Challenge 2008

 Year 11

 

*       Indigenous Issues

*       Refugees and Asylum Seekers

*       Homeless

*       East Timor

*       Tibet

*       Climate Justice for Pacific Countries

*       Africa’s Issues

 

Book or Magazine Resources :

 

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.

 

Electronic Databases

 

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Excellent for information on HIV/AIDS in Africa, Conflict in the Sudan, East Timor and Tibet

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

 

General Social Issues Sites

 

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


REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

 

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

HOMELESS

Homelessness Task Force Brisbane.

http://cwpp.slq.qld.gov.au/homeless/about-homelessnesstaskforce.htm

This site contains a list of community organizations
 involved in helping homeless people in Queensland.
 It also lists places where the homeless can seek help,
for example for counseling, clothing, housing, cheap food, etc.

 

What is homelessness?
http://www.melbournecitymission.org.au/what.html

 

Homeless. Six cities, six stories
http://www.abc.net.au/homeless

Fact Sheets on homelessness
http://nch.ari.net/facts.html

 

Eight ways to help the homeless
http://www.agrm.org/how-help.html

 

There is no home like place – Homelessness in Australia
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sp/homeless.htm

ABC: Life on the Street – Real Life Experiences Expressed by Teenagers

http://www.abc.net.au/news/features/homeless/story1_2.htm

 

Council to Homeless Persons Australia

http://www.chp.org.au

Homelessness – Beyond the homeless myth
http://www.homeless.org.au

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

 

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

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

 

CLIMATE CHANGE

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



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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/4152353.stm

China and Human Rights
http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Abuses/China.asp

 

Amnesty International Australia News Archives : Tibet
http://action.amnesty.org.au/news/archive/C15

Tibet – why the Chinese are there
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2671814