by edaday | Aug 7, 2020 | Peace & Justice
The Chicago-based National Immigration Justice Center (NIJC) presented a webinar Thursday about the criminalization of migration. In a new report, its members document the rights violations of these harmful laws and policies, through sharing firsthand testimony from...
by edaday | Aug 6, 2020 | Peace & Justice
The Viatorian Community supports the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance, one of the world’s leading anti-poverty organizations. Heartland works in communities in the U.S. and abroad to serve those who are homeless, living in poverty, or seeking safety. In the latest...
by edaday | Jul 30, 2020 | Peace & Justice
In writing for Voices for Creative Nonviolence, founder Kathy Kelly cites grim statistics of how the war in Yemen has affected its people, and most alarmingly its children. “Children, who bear no responsibility for governance or warfare, endure the...
by edaday | Jul 30, 2020 | Peace & Justice
U. S. Circuit Court Judge Dolly M. Gee ruled this month that children detained for longer than 20 days should be released from family prisons. ICE has the authority to release parents with their children, but has instead chosen the path of cruelty—they have asked...
