Center for Human Rights and International Justice

Announcements

In November, the Fifth International Conference on Migration: "Detention, Deportation, or Return and Reintegration of Migrants," sponsored by the Jesuit Migration Service and the Jesuit universities of Central and North America, will be held in Guatemala City, Guatemala.  Proposals are now being accepted; please see the following documents for more information.  Brochure | Application

The Center would like to welcome its new Affiliated Faculty who will begin their tenure in
the fall! Welcome Professors Lisa Cahill, David Deese, James Keenan,
Lisa Patel Stevens, and David Rasmussen.

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice is seeking a
Graduate Research Assistant for the Academic Year 2008-2009.

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

With the help of BC's Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, a deportee has received what supervising attorney Rachel Rosenbloom cites as an 'extremely rare' permission to return to the US to visit her family.  Read the press release here.

The video of "Peace from Africa: The Mozambique Story," with presentations by Archbishop Jaime Pedro Gonçalves, one of the mediators who brokered peace in Mozambique, and Andrea Bartoli, professor of conflict studies at George Mason University, is now available online.  The session was sponsored by the CHRIJ on February 7, 2008.

Prof. Daniel Kanstroom, Prof. Kalina Brabeck of Rhode Island College, and Briton Lykes of the Linch School of Education are featured in a recent article in "El Latino Expreso" about their trip to Guatamala as part of the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project.  Click here to read the article in Spanish.

The Summer 2008 issue of the CHRIJ newsletter, "The Center Review" is now available to read here.

Prof. Daniel Kanstroom, Attorney Mary Holper, and Attorney Rachel Rosenbloom were all featured in the Spring 2008 issue of BC Law magazine.  Click here to view the articles.

Professor David Hollenbach's presentation at the "Speak Truth to Power" conference has been made available online.  To view it, click here, select "Workshop 3" and scroll forward to the 5 minute, 30 second mark.

Attorney Rachel Rosenbloom of the Center's Post-Deportation Human Rights Project was recently cited in an article titled "Thin ICE" from The Nation.

America, the national Catholic weekly, has described David Hollenbach, director of the Center in its June 9, 2008, issue as an “action intellectual” whose work exemplifies Catholic higher learning in service to the poor.  The article highlights Hollenbach’s recently edited book Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa. Click on the cover for the full article.

Associate Director Dan Kanstroom published an article on the illegality of waterboarding. Click here to read more.

In a Center program this past fall, Guatemalan Youth: Migration and Return, Anthropologist Ricardo Falla, SJ, and educator Ana Gutiérrez Castro described the social and individual consequences when young people in Guatemala emigrate to take advantage of economic opportunities abroad. http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/castro/
 

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.    

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

• 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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