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AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST CHOCOLATE FONDUE PARTY - TO HELP END PEOPLE TRAFFICKING AND SLAVE-LIKE CONDITIONS IN COCOA PRODUCTION
There are an estimated 284,000 child labourers working in exploitative conditions in West Africa that produces 75% of the world's cocoa for the production of chocolate. An estimated 12,000 of these children have been trafficked to plantations in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). This event is to help end trafficking and exploited labour on West African cocoa plantations.
Date: Sunday 18 January
Time: 1.00 – 3.00 PM
Venue: Federation Square
The event is organised by Stop the Traffik, Micah Challenge and the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand.
36th Ecumenical Summer School
"The Hospitality of God - Food for Thought"
Date: Friday 30 January to Sunday 1 February 2009
Time: Registration from 7.00pm
Venue: Queens' College, Melbourne University
For further information phone Laurie on 9808 4715 or email lgthorn@melbpc.org.au
Click here for brochure
2009 Parliament of the World's Religion: Pre-Parliament Event "Making a Difference"
Melbourne’s many religious and spiritual communities will come together to:
Celebrate our diversity through music and ritual
“Taste” the Parliament experience at a traditional Sikh food offering
Learn more about two major issues:
“Hearing each other? The National Apology to the Stolen Generations one year on” Tom Calma, Aboriginal elder and Australian Human Rights Commissioner
“Healing the earth: The climate change challenge for people of faith” Don Henry, Australian Conservation Foundation and Interfaith panel
Performers include Azmeena Hussain and Nazeem Hussain of “Salam Cafe” - Local Indigenous dance group Wunsyaluv - Native American singer Joanne Shenandoah - World Indigenous musician Pero
Registration Cost: Full AUD $57.20 Student: AUD $28.60 Register Online Now
Date: Sunday 8 February 2009
Time: 4.00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Melbourne Town Hall
For further enquires please phone: 1300 852 156
Email: info@parliamentofreligions2009.org
2009 Human Rights Conference
keynote speaker will be Commonwealth Attorney-General Robert McClelland
Date: Friday 17 July 2009
Venue: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
More information will be posted on the Castan Centre website www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre
2009 Parliament of the World's Religions
Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the earth
Melbourne - 3 to 9 December 2009
The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world.
To accomplish this, we invite individuals and communities who are equally invested in attaining this goal.
See www.parliamentofreligions.org
Call for papers. For more information click here.
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