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Edmund Rice Centre

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

Brisbane Annexe

5 Abingdon St
(Postal: 84 Park Rd)
Woolloongabba,
QLD 4102

Ph 1: (07) 3103 7376
Ph 2: (02) 8090 1976
Fax: (02) 8762 4220

Staffed part-time
 - please call for appt

 

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ERC International Programs

ERC International Programs: Human Rights Immersions 2010 - 2011

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.


ERC International Programs: Human Rights Immersions - Frequently Asked Questions - General

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]

 


Expressions of Interest (non-obligating)

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.


Women of Courage, Women of Hope: Latin America -- Nov/Dec 2010

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:-

  • 25th November -- UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women -- activities in the Dominican Republic on the 50th anniversay of the murder of "the Butterflies" - the three Mirabal sisters, Minerva, Patria & Maria-Teresa, leaders of the resistance movement against the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
  • 1st December -- World AIDS Day -- participation in activities in El Salvador.
  • 2nd December -- anniversary of 1980 death squad murder of 4 North American Women Missioners by El Salvador's National Guard -- commemorative ceremonies in El Salvador.
  • 10th December -- UN International Human Rights Day -- participation with Human Rights organisations in Guatemala.

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 

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ERC International Human Rights Immersion - Jan 2011 - El Salvador & Guatemala

Option for the Poor - Human Rights Immersion - El Salvador & Guatemala - Jan 2011

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. 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 - Human Rights Immersion - El Salvador & Guatemala March 2011

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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Update: ERC Director, Phil Glendenning, recently returned to Australia from Afghanistan after 10 days interviewing returned asylum seekers again in Kabul.

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