by Nick Patricca | Jan 2, 2020
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...
by Nick Patricca | Jun 24, 2019
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...
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 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 Nick Patricca | Mar 9, 2019
Friends of Chicago Network: MARCH 2019 is Women’s History Month. I call to your attention two women: MARIA RESSA in the Philippines and SANJUANA MARTÍNEZ in Mexico who are creating history today in the struggle to investigate and to publish information that is...
