Chicago Network for Justice & Peace

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...

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...