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Statement of Pax Christi International on 60 Years of NATO

Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans, (ACRATH) is commited to working towards the elimination of human trafficking in Australia, the Asia Pacific and internationally.

Medical Association for Prevention of War ( Australia)
The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) is a professional not-for-profit organisation that works to promote peace and disarmament. MAPW aims to reduce the physical and psychological impact, as well as environmental effect of wars throughout the world. MAPW has branches in every State and Territory in Australia.

The global weapons trade: fact sheets 7-12, MAPW and partners 200

Cluster Munitions Coalition
The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is an international coalition working to protect civilians from the effects of cluster munitions. The CMC has a membership of around 300 civil society organisations from more than 80 countries, and includes organisations working on disarmament, peace and security, human rights, victim/survivor assistance, clearance, women’s rights, faith issues and other areas of work. The CMC facilitates the efforts of NGOs worldwide to educate governments, the public and the media about the problems of cluster munitions and the solution.

Some further resources and Information on Cluster Munitions

Religions for Peace and Pax Christi International have developed an advocacy package to assist religious leaders write letters or op-eds encouraging governments to sign the Convention.

CMC Multi-Faith Action Page  CMC Membership Page Religions for Peace Cluster Munitions Programme

Convention on Cluster Munitions Text  The Ban Bus  The People’s Treaty  Landmine Survivors Network/Survivor Corps

Handicap Internationa

 The Australian Network to Ban Landmines has branches throughout the country and works towards: Universalisation of the Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa Treaty) to ban the use, prodiction, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonal landmines.  Funding and resources for land mine clearance and landmine awareness programs. Funding and resources for landmine survivors.

Good news from the Leader of the Australian Democrats Senator Lyn Allison... a private bill to set up an Australian Peace Commission.   This could be the breakthrough we need and indeed the beginning of a Culture of Peace.

 Catholic Earthcare Australia (CEA) was established by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in May, 2002 and received its present Mandate in May, 2003.As an agency of the Catholic Bishops Commission for Justice and Service, CEA's mission is to help promote understanding among people that Creation is sacred and endangered, and must be protected and sustained for present and future generations yet unborn

 Pace e Bene Australia ... promoting the spirituality and practice of active nonviolence.

 Palms Australia, an independent Australian volunteer sending organisation with over 46 years experience in recruiting, preparing, sending and supporting volunteers for work overseasfor work overseas and in cross-cultural situations. They now operate a coffee shop in Glebe, called The Fair Trade Coffee Company. The shop also offers a place to meet for discussions on a range of social justice issues

 Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand Fair Trade for All Education Kit. An education resource kit available for use with young people aged 10 - 13 years

 ACMICA  is a movement of Catholic intellectuals and professionals inspired by the life of Christ and called to fulfill their vocation and mission through their professions as well as in their intellectual commitments to Church, society and polity. ACMICA is engaged in the process of critical analysiss, careful relfection and just action. It is a movement for solidarity and dialogue and is concerned with issues of human rights, social equity and environmetal justice.t is affiliated with ICMICA, one of the two autonomous organisations of Pax Romana, which is a lay apostolate movement recognised by the Holy see and has consultative status with ECOSOC (United Nations Economic Social Council) and UNESCO(United Nations Educational,  Scientific and Cultural Organisation).
ACMICA works to achieve its objecyives through it global network and in partnership with other social movements.

 The Columbans specifically approach their work from a standpoint of solidarity with the poor and the integrity of creation. This is an option taken because the poor are unjustly marginalised. Basically solidarity with the poor means that, regardless of the particular context of the work which the Columbans do, they recognise the moral challenge of worldwide and local poverty. This recognition of the impact of poverty means that all the work the Columbans may undertake is evaluated in terms of what effect it has on the poor. It means supporting the struggle of the poor for real participation and against injustice

International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons
ICAN is a new campaign initiated by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), a federation of medical professionals in 60 countries.
ICAN focuses on the roots of the nuclear weapons problem - the continued possession of nuclear weapons by a small minority of countries who risk their use by design, accident, miscalculation or by terrorists, and whose weapons are an incentive to others to also become nuclear armed. ICAN aims to achieve a Nuclear Weapons Convention to ban the development, possession and use of nuclear weapons.

It's time to finish the job we started: the total elimination of nuclear weapons

Social Action Office - Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, Queensland.
Our social action ministry is grounded in the Christian Scriptures and the social teaching of the Catholic church. We also draw inspiration from the mandate of many Religious Congregations to be in active solidarity with those who are poor and margianlised