Center for Human Rights and International Justice

AnnOUnCements

The Center is pleased to announce its Seminar and Certificate Program for the
2008-2009 academic year. For more information click here.

The Center has compiled an extensive listing of awards, fellowship, scholarship, and internship opportunities relating to the field of human rights and international justice. This document is now available to the BC community. Download the document.

Jobs for Law Graduates are available at the International Criminal Tribunal
Court in Sarajevo; click here for more information.  

         CHRIJ IN THE NEWS

The Center was featured on the cover of Boston College Magazine in an article about a conference that it co-sponsored in Nairobi, Kenya, on the rights of forced migrants. Click the cover for the full story.  

Of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa.  Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa, edited by Center director David Hollenbach, provides an analytical framework for vigorous advocacy on behalf of the human rights of these displaced people. Representing both religious and secular perspectives, the contributors are scholars, practitioners, and refugee advocates—all of whom have spent time "on the ground" in Africa.

An alumna of Boston College Law School, Debra Brown Steinberg, has been working to obtain legal immigration status for some of the noncitizen
victims of the 9/11 attacks and their families. She was recently featured in a New York Times article, Steps Set for Kin of 9/11 Victims to Stay in U.S.

Center Director David Hollenbach, S.J. took part in the the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning program on Responding to International Conflict: Challenges for Christian Jewish Dialogue. Hollenbach was featured in a panel on Jewish and Christian Responses to Peacemaking and War This two part program is now available on the Center for Christian-Jewis Learning webpage under Streaming Videos or on Boston College Frontrow.    

Three Center-related events were recently featured on BC's Front Row: 

• David Hollenbach, SJ, professor of theology, Rabbi Or Rose of Hebrew College, and Rev. Rodney Peterson, director of the Boston Theological Institute, consider ways in which Christian and Jewish traditions address peacemaking and war.     http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/hollenbach/
• Educator and activist Kalamu ya Salaam discusses the plight of New Orleans schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and reads works by students who attend a writing workshop he established for the city's children.
  http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/salaam/ 
•  In his second lecture Kalamu ya Salaam engages the audience in interactive poetry and songs. He is joined by students from his writing workshop, who present their poetry and fiction.     http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/salaam1/

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