Chicago Network for Justice & Peace

[CHICAGO NETWORK JP board member LUCINA KATHMANN visited Ciudad de Juarez in the Mexican State of Chihuahua on the Rio Grande just south of El Paso. Lucina visits Juarez frequently. Below is her report on the disappearance and murder of women = FEMINICIDE. The photo...

REJOICE WITH US: Our writer colleague MARIA RESSA the Philippine journalist has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021. Maria and DMITRY MURATOV of Russia received this award because of their work for freedom of expression. Chicago Network JP offered Maria support when...

REPORTS FROM THE UNITED NATIONS by Chicago Network associates Lucina Kathmann and Elizabeth Starčević on the Status of Women 2021 Lucina Kathmann UN Commission on the Status of Women 2O21 The 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women opened March 15,...

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...