Chicago Network for Justice & Peace

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 crimes ever get to the attention of a judge and...

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 caused tremendous human suffering, destruction, and also escalation...

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 of hosting Sanjuana Martínez here in Chicago when she was...

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 this document which I will attach if I get it...

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 translators for all official meetings, none at all...