Center for Human Rights and International Justice

Associate Director Daniel Kanstroom and students file Human Rights Amicus Brief at D.C. Circuit in Afghanistan detention case. Click here for more.
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CHRIJ Fall Newsletter


CHRIJ 2008/09 Annual report



CHRIJ Director David Hollenbach SJ's article on new US policy in Sudan appeared in America Magazine's November 2, 2009 issue.
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Nov. 19

Demanding Dignity
Defending Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the 21st Century
Fulton 511
7:00 pm
Talk by Larry Cox, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA
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Nov. 20

Conversations at Lunch
Boston Room, Corcoran Commons
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Susan Akram, Professor Boston University Law School
Gerald Neuman, Professor, Harvard Law School
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Nov. 30

Memory and its Strength
Twentieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Martyrs of El Salvador
Robsham Theater
4:30 pm
A discussion between Job Sobrino SJ and Noam Chomsky, moderated by Donald Monan, SJ,
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Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights moves operations to CHRIJ.
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August to November 2009, CHRIJ Associate Director Professor Daniel Kanstroom will serve as the Center’s Interim Director. CHRIJ Director Professor David Hollenbach, SJ will be in Nairobi, Kenya, working with Jesuit Refugee Service to explore new forms of collaboration and developing teaching Human Rights and International Justice at Hekima College, including at Hekima's new Center for Peace Studies.