15 Henley Rd
(PO Box 2219)
Homebush West,
NSW 2140
AUSTRALIA
Ph: (02) 8762 4200
Fx: (02) 8762 4220
Int'l Ph: +61 2 8762 4200
Int'l Fx: +61 2 8762 4220
Email: erc@erc.org.au
Located just 100 metres to the south of Flemington Railway Station. Link to new location on Google Maps
5 Abingdon St
(Postal: 84 Park Rd)
Woolloongabba,
QLD 4102
Ph 1: (07) 3103 7376
Ph 2: (02) 8090 1976
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International immersion experiences develop a new and internalised sense of our world, and of structures of inequity within it, from the perspectives of the economically excluded.
ERC immersions seek to facilitate for participants experience-based transformational education for justice through the engagement with the ERC's international partner organisations visited.
Upcoming International Immersion - see detailed descriptions further below:
Women of Courage, Women of Hope
Caribbean & Central America -- 23rd Nov to 13th Dec 2010
An activity within the international campaign: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. This program will include participation in local commemorations of the 50th anniversary of murders of the Mirabal sisters in Dominican Republic, and the 30th anniversary of four North American women missioners in El Salvador.
Living the option for the poor: the Church in the struggle for human rights
El Salvador & Guatemala: 1st to 20th January 2011
This program is being conducted in partnership with the Catholic Education Office, Sydney and is structured with an emphasis on exploring the faith that does justice.
Human Rights, Reconciliation & Recovery of Historic Memory
El Salvador & Guatemala -- 15th March to 3rd April 2011
With a focus on responses to institutionalised structures of human rights abuses and impunity and issues of social reconciliation in post-conflict societies. The program is timed to include the 31st anniversary commemorations of the murder of renowned human rights defender Archbishop Oscar Romero and the 30th anniversary of the 1981 River Lempa massacre.
This page provides general information in regard to ERC's International Human Rights Immersions
Read more [Coming soon - page currently under construction - Monday 16th Aug 2010]
Bringing together an immersion depends on the right confluence of committed participants with similar interests, time availability and adequate finance.
ERC's procedure is to present a list of possibilities and priorities for immersions in the coming 18 months.
We invite initial expressions of interest - non-obligating - from people who may be interested in participating in one or more of these international immersions in 2010 - 2011
We encourage interested people to express their interest as early as possible. Conducting the immersion will only be possible if there are sufficient people interested. Minimum number is usually four participants and one ERC facilitator. Maximum numbers are 15 participants.
Costs are likely to be higher if there are less than six participants - so encourage your friends and contacts to also complete our expressions of interest form.
ERC Immersion to Latin America 23rd November to 13th December 2009.
An activity within the international campaign: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. This program will include participation in local commemorations of the 50th anniversary of murders of the Mirabal sisters in Dominican Republic, and the 30th anniversary of four North American women missioners in El Salvador.
Visit will include: Dominican Republic, Haiti, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Key themes: Gender violence; Women's movement and rights; Indigenous Rights; Women's involvement and a women's agenda in human rights activism; Women's theologies of liberation; Post-conflict social reconciliation; Gender violence in civil war; Role of women in resistance movements.
Participation in:-
For more information or to express interest in participating contact Sean Cleary on (02)8090-1976 or (07)3103-7376 or by email to seanc[at]erc.org.au
Living the option for the poor: the Church in the struggle for human rights
El Salvador & Guatemala: 1st to 20th January 2011
The Edmund Rice Centre is conducting this immersion program in January 2011 in partnership with the Catholic Education Office of the Archdiocese of Sydney. This formation program for is being offered for those who seeking to explore further a faith-inspired commitment to social justice.
Few places provide such a clear example as El Salvador & Guatemala of the role of the Church in living the option for the poor and of promoting social justice.
Our visit to the region and our meetings with people who worked alongside El Salvador and Guatemala‟s martyred bishops - Oscar Romero and Juan Gerardi - will shed light on this legacy and the commitment of so many thousands of Christians in these countries. These are people who continue to be willing to put their lives on the line for the construction of a society that reflects the values of the Kingdom that Jesus describes in the Gospels.
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Human Rights, Reconciliation & Recovery of Historic Memory
El Salvador & Guatemala -- 15th March to 3rd April 2011
With a focus on responses to institutionalised structures of human rights abuses and impunity and issues of social reconciliation in post-conflict societies. The program is timed to include the 31st anniversary commemorations of the murder of renowned human rights defender Archbishop Oscar Romero and the 30th anniversary of the 1981 River Lempa massacre.
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ERC's success in mounting a coherent argument for the reopening of the cases of those asylum seekers that Australia has deported to danger, has been based on rigorous research in situ in the countries to which these people were returned.
Such work has high levels of risk for our researchers and for the deportees. We are committed to accompanying these vulnerable people to achieve safety. In many cases their treatment by Australia has placed them at greater risk than when they were first forced to flea their place of origin.
The results of this research conducted by ERC Director Phil Glendenning and colleagues has been published in two reports: Deported to Danger. Information about the research and copies of the reports are available here.
The unique nature of this human rights research work means that it does not qualify for most sources of funding from agencies. The work can therefore only be continued through your support. To donate please go to our donations page.
Donations for this ERC work are tax deductible!
