Join us on Thursday October 22 for CRLN's 2009 Annual Luncheon, kicking off a year-long celebration of CRLN's 20th Anniversary.  During those twenty years, CRLN has brought dozens of Latin American human rights and religious leaders to Chicago.  Learning first-hand from these leaders, we are equipped and engaged to advocate for US policies that build justice and peace.

Luncheon features two speakers. Laura Carlsen is the Director of the Americas Policy Program at the Center for International Policy's Mexico City office. She is an expert on US/Mexico public policy and the author of numberous articles, including incisive analysis of the Merida Initiative.  She has lived in Mexico City since 1986, since receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to study the impact of the Mexican economic crisis on women.

Visit a Replica of a Guantanamo Cell  

At the official invitation of the United States government, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism, Dr. Doudou Diene of Senegal, visited the U.S. from May 19 to June 6, 2008, to meet with government officials, non-governmental organizations, and victims of racial discrimination.

Midwest Regional Conference on International Justice
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Rome Conference Establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC)

April 25, 2008
9:00am to 5:00pm
Lower Level of the Harold Washington Library
400 South State Street
Chicago, IL 60605

WAUKEGAN, IL, Jan. 18—She is a homeowner, a taxpayer, a friendly neighbor and an American citizen. Yet because she is married to an illegal immigrant, these days she feels like a fugitive.

Whenever her Mexican husband ventures out of the house, “it makes me sick to my stomach,” said the woman, who insisted on being identified only by a first name and last initial, Miriam M.

“I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, he took too long,’ ” she said. “I’ll start calling. I go into panic.”

CHICAGO, Jan. 4 - Including his three-year stint with the U.S. Army, Rodrigo Alvear has worked for the federal government for 30 years, which he figured would make him a cinch for U.S. citizenship.

But almost five years after he applied, the Colombian immigrant who grew up on Chicago's North Side is still waiting to hear back on his case, among hundreds of thousands caught in a backlog caused by pending Federal Bureau of Investigation background checks.

Coalition to Protect Public Housing Member among the Protesters Arrested

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 15 - Residents and supporters gathered outside St. Bernard Housing Development on Saturday for a demonstration that was energetic and peaceful until local police, accompanied by U.S. military personal, arrived to clear the area. Three arrests were reported, including J.R. Fleming, of the Poor People's Economic Campaign for Human Rights and, MCHR member, Coalition to Protect Public Housing, who traveled to New Orleans with a group of young activists.

DePaul University College of Law (Chicago, IL) is offering a one-month summer program at the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica from July 21 to August 15, 2008!