Human rights

The
Catholic Weekly
Online

Sydney
22 February 2004

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Human rights

Discussion and audience participation will be encouraged at Jesuit seminars next month which will look at countering the terrorist threat to human rights and the Australian identity.

The 2004 Jesuit Seminar series, A Fair Go in an Age of Terror, will look at the claim that “Australia’s human rights commitment seems to have been compromised in a post-September 11 world”.

Good Samaritan Sr Patty Fawkner, director of Uniya, the Jesuit Social Justice Centre, says: “We play a dangerous and unnecessary game of ‘either/or’ when, for example, we put national self-interest above the right of people to seek asylum from persecution.

“And we also need to think carefully about measures which might prejudice the integrity of our own rights as citizens.

“In an age of terror and uncertainty Australians are challenged to foster a ‘both/and’ – rather than an ‘either/or’ – world of human rights and national security.

“Our Australian identity depends on it.”

Fr Frank Brennan, associate director of Uniya and a prominent human rights advocate, will be principal speaker at each of the seminars.

Sydney and Canberra session times are:

Sydney – 6.30pm Tuesday, March 16, St Aloysius College, Jeffrey St, Milsons Point

Canberra – 7.30pm Thursday, March 25, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Blackall St, Barton

Western Sydney – 7.30pm Tuesday, March 30, St Patrick’s Church, Allawah St, Blacktown.

Seminars will also be held in Adelaide (March 9), Melbourne (March 11) and Brisbane (March 23).