Chicago Network for Justice & Peace

A daughter of Veracruz, Mexico, Regina Martínez Pérez’s decades-long investigative journalism career focused on her native state. From 2000 until she was found beaten and strangled to death in her home on 28 April 2012, she worked as a leading correspondent for...

CHICAGO CITY OF REFUGE INITIATIVE -- a project of Chicago Network for Justice and Peace -  proudly presents Solomon Fikre Lemma our featured writer in exile for Winter 2020. Solomon and his wife Mesrak are in exile in Chicago because of their work for civil and human...

Unoma Azuah teaches writing at Wiregrass Georgia Technical College, Valdosta, GA. Her research and activism focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights in Nigeria, and her recent book project is Blessed Body: Secret Lives of the Nigerian LGBT. Some...

Mexico is the second most dangerous country in the world to practice journalism, second only to Syria, which is in a war. Year after year this is Mexico's rating. Why? One reason cited by everyone is impunity. According to government statistics only 4 % of reported...

RIAD ISMAT's 'Artists, Writers and The Arab Spring' explores the foresight of prominent Middle Eastern authors and artists who anticipated the Arab Spring. Eventually, the Arab Spring led to repression of the protesters with excessive force, which caused tremendous...