by Nick Patricca | Mar 25, 2019
Photo: Sanjuana Martínez FRIENDS OF CHICAGO NETWORK JP and CHICAGO CITY OF REFUGE INITIATIVE: “AL FIN ! on 20 March 2019 by unanimous vote the Senate of Mexico has approved Sanjuana Martínez as Director of Mexico’s official news agency. We had the honor...
by Lucina Kathmann | Mar 14, 2019
Photo from the ¡Que las liberen ya! campaign launch. Representatives from the United States are working on the issue of the exclusion of visas to women attending the CSW. They generated a petition which I signed. I have written asking for an electronic version of...
by Lucina Kathmann | Mar 13, 2019
Photo: Haydee Castillo. This morning I walked into the NGO briefing at the exact moment that they were calling for a volunteer translator for a Nicaraguan woman, Haydee Castillo, a human rights defender. So I walked directly to the podium. (There is a squadron of...
by Nick Patricca | Mar 13, 2019
left to right Lina Abou Habib; Co-chair of NGO CSW Arab Mena, Susan O’Malley, chair of NGO CSW NYC; Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, United Nations, Haydee Castillo, Human rights defender, Nicaragua; Asa Regner, Deputy Executive...
by Lucina Kathmann | Mar 12, 2019
A roomful of delegates waiting for the Secretary General who was very late. Lucina Kathmann, board member of Chicago Network, represents PEN International, an NGO with consultative status at the United Nations, at the 63rd meeting of the Commission on the Status of...
