Chicago Network for Justice & Peace

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lucina Kathmann, PEN:International CSW 63, the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, opened today. During these two weeks official delegates from 45 countries will take up the priority theme, “Social protection systems, access to public...