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Centro Bonó

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Journal
  
Social Studies

Website
  
CentroBono

Centro Bonó

Location
  
Josefa Brea Street No. 65, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Affiliations
  
West Indies Jesuit province, Catholic

Centro Bonó is the social outreach center of the West Indies Province of the Society of Jesus. It is located on the campus of Pedro Francisco Bono Institute in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Its focus is on inter-cultural exchanges and empowerment of the marginalized through research, education, and advocacy on social, fiscal, and immigration issues.

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Activities

Centro Bonó, along with Centro de Estudios Sociales Padre Juan Montalvo, SJ (CES), is located on the campus of Pedro Francisco Bono Institute. Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados/as y Migrantes is another close collaborator. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake the Bono group organized an international, conference on Shared History, Shared Future: Converging Paths in the Haitian and Dominican Transborder Experience,. Junot Díaz and Frank Moya Pons spoke at the event. Topics addressed included gender, sexuality, and family in migration, Border Identities, and Afro-Dominicanidad.

The Center's chief purpose is advocacy with the government on pro-poor policies, including youth unemployment and labor law. It submitted an amicus curiae brief before the Dominican courts on behalf of expelled Haitians and Dominicans and advocates for public policies with a view to generating institutional transformations toward a more intercultural and demilitarized society.

Centro Bonó offers a Diploma in Human Rights to train professionals working in the area of human rights, with the support of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR) and a grant from the Inter-American Foundation. It also offers with Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo a major in Humanities and Philosophy.

Publications

Bonó Center has the following publications.

  • Social Studies Review comes out three times a year with research results in the social sciences and with reflections on current topics. The Center also publishes reviews and bibliographical essays on anthropology, history, sociology, political science, philosophy, psychology, and culture.
  • Bulletin of the Human Rights Watch is a quarterly bulletin serving the Jesuit Service for Refugees and Migrants (SJRM) and Border Solidarity (SF), part of the Crossing Borders project funded by the Latin American Lay Movement. The Bulletin publicizes violations of the rights of migrants, mostly Haitians, living in the Dominican Republic while promoting the protection of human rights in general and bringing migration issues to the attention of public officials. It also collaborates with Human Rights Watch international.

    • References

    Centro Bonó Wikipedia
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