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The call for climate adaptation must leave no one behind
The report makes clear that failing to mitigate and adapt to climate change will cost lives. Jesuit Social Services recognises that already disadvantaged and marginalised people are some of the first and worst affected by climate change.
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Staff Q+A – Máire Wade – Policy, Research and Advocacy Coordinator
In 2021, we contributed a submission to the Inquiry into Victoria’s Criminal Justice System, proposing practical suggestions for a reformed system focused on prevention, early intervention, and restorative justice. The submission’s author is our Policy, Research and Advocacy Coordinator Máire...
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Transition to zero emissions future must include a focus on decarceration
Jesuit Social Services has launched a discussion paper arguing that in a world of worsening climate change, Australia’s reliance on incarceration is increasingly untenable....
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Staff Profile – Nasser Yawari, Jobs Victoria Advocates Program
As hundreds of Afghan families fled captured Kabul in August and September, the diaspora community was waiting with open arms. One Melbourne-based community member, Nasser Yawari, works for our Jobs Victoria Advocates Program. Here, he tells how he coordinated within different Jesuit Social Services...
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Climate-induced displacement and COP26: an urgent issue of ecological justice
The effects of climate change will displace an estimated 216 million people by 2050. As COP26 draws to a close, our Centre for Just Places and CAPSA campaign argue for an urgent, interconnected response to the crisis of climate change-induced displacement....
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Centre for Just Places builds climate resilience in the community sector
In seeking to build a more just, inclusive and resilient society, we must strengthen the community sector to respond to the inequitable impacts of climate change, writes Jesuit Social Services' Ecological Justice Support Officer, JACK PIPER....