2009
CHRIJ Director David Hollenbach S.J's article on new US policy in Sudan appeared in America Magazine's November 2, 2009 issue. Read the article here.
Video featuring exhibit on Jesuit Refugee Service Founder, Pedro Arrupe at Boston College from September 24 to October 15, 2009. Watch the video here.
CHRIJ Director, David Hollenbach SJ’s article on corruption and inaction in Kenya appeared in America’s September 28, 2009 issue. Read the article here.
CHRIJ Director Professor M. Brinton Lykes was featured guest on Spherio: The Local Voice of our Hemisphere. Read More on Spherio Here
Listen to the Recording Here
CHRIJ receives major grant for Initiative on Research and Education on Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in Collaboration with Practitioners. Read More Here.
Post Deportation Human Rights Project joins other groups to Petition for Rulemaking seeking appointed counsel in immigration proceedings. Read more here or read the petition.
Former Post Deportation Human Rights Supervising Attorney, Rachel Rosenbloom is quoted in an article from the DailyComet.com in Louisiana. Read the article here.
Former Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project lawyer Ms. Nyasha Karimakwenda was recently quoted in the Boston Globe. Read the article here.
Former Post Deportation Human Rights Project Supervising Attorney, Rachel Rosenbloom's congressional testimony is featured in BC Magazine. Read the article here.
As the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights approaches in December, theologian and Center for Human Rights and International Justice Director David Hollenbach, SJ, reflects on how the Catholic Church promotes human dignity in America. Read his article here.
The following sources have posted stories regarding the Conference on Deeper Causes of Forced Migration held by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice in collaboration with the Jesuit Refugee Service and Catholic Relief Services in November, 2008:
Press Release | Reuters | Human Rights Today | U.S. Politics Today | Houston Chronicle | State House News | Earth Times | The Pilot
The Director for the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and University Professor of Human Rights and International Justice, David Hollenbach, SJ received the University of Dayton’s Marianist Award for contributions as ‘one of the most important… scholars writing today about ethics in the Catholic tradition’. Click here for more.
Center Director David Hollenbach, SJ will give the Monsignor Charles Owen Rice Lecture on ‘Refugee Rights and the Transnational Good’ at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA on March 26, 2009. Click here for more information.