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UN Human Rights Investigators to Discuss N. Korea Violations
UN Human Rights Investigators to Discuss N. Korea Violations At National Press Club Newsmaker News Conference Washington, DC – The three members of the UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry (COI) established last March to investigate widespread violations of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will discuss concerns raised by their probe at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Friday, November 1. Violations the COI is investigating are those related to the right to food, prison camps, torture and inhuman treatment, arbitrary detention,…
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Finding Common Ground with the NRA on Gun Control
Finding Common Ground with the NRA on Gun Control Washington, DC – Paul Helmke – former President & CEO of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, former Republican Mayor of Fort Wayne, IN, former GOP nominee for U.S. Senate and currently a professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs – will address the political impasse over national efforts to reduce gun violence at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Friday, October 18. After the Newtown massacre last December, many expected some progress at the national level on efforts to…
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How to Write a Book
Join a book agent and four club members/book authors to discuss how to pitch and write a book at a program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in a program co-sponsored by the Professional Development Committee, Freelance Committee and National Press Club Journalism Institute. Book agent Deborah Grosvenor and authors Tom Dunkel, Alison Fitzgerald, Eleanor Herman and Tom Young, all of them members of the Club, will talk about their experiences and offer tips. Former Club President Jonathan D. Salant, chair of the Professional Development Committee, will…
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Non-Resident Weekend Opening Reception
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Building the Biggest Telescope, Searching for the "Big Bang"
Building the Biggest Telescope, Searching for the “Big Bang” South Africa’s “Square Kilometre Array” Project to Revolutionize Man’s Look at the Heavens When it’s completed in the early 2020s, the Square Kilometre Array – or SKA – will be by far the largest radio telescope ever built, requiring massive amounts of IT infrastructure and supercomputing capacity to be assembled in Africa. South Africa was selected over Australia to host the bulk of the project, which will take scientists closer to the instant of the Big Bang than previously thought possible. And it’s believed the SKA will collect…
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Government Contracting in Era of Sequestration
Private Sector CEOs Discuss Future of Government Contracting in Era of Sequestration Companies that do business with the U.S. government, Fortune 500 companies and small businesses alike, are faced with unprecedented fiscal uncertainty as they work to navigate the impact of sequestration. At a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference on Thursday, May 16th three private-sector CEOs will discuss the future of government contracting in the era of sequestration. Participants: • John Jumper, Chairman and CEOScience Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a FORTUNE 500® scientific,…
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Floyd Abrams Book Event
National Press Club to Host First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams As U.S. prosecutors increasingly monitor reporters to get to the bottom of leaks, the National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee will host leading First Amendment attorney and press-freedom advocate Floyd Abrams, who will discuss these issues and his new book. Abrams, a senior partner in Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, has been at the forefront of nearly every major press-freedom and free-speech case in the last 40 years—from the Pentagon papers in 1971 to the Citizens United case in 2010. His new book, “Friend of the…
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On the 30th Anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," Kids Still at Risk
On the 30th Anniversary of “A Nation at Risk,” Kids Still at RiskLeading Educators Call for New Direction for Education ReformFocused on the “Opportunity Gap” Professor Kevin Welner, University of ColoradoDirector, National Educational Policy Center Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford UniversityCo-Director, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education John JacksonPresident, Schott Foundation On the 30th anniversary of the landmark education reform report A Nation at Risk, which spawned a decades-long focus on closing the academic “achievement gap” between low-income and minority…
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Discussion of Foreign Correspondents' impact on International Relations
Giovanna Dell'Orto, a journalism professor, a former reporter with the Associated Press in Italy and the United States and a new member of the National Press Club, plans to discuss her new book, American Journalism and International Relations: Foreign Correspondence from the Early Republic to the Digital Era. The event, sponsored by the International Correspondents Committee, is open to the public, but reservations, including professional affiliation, should be made at [email protected]. Shedding new light on the debate regarding the importance of foreign news to America's international…
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Kyrgyz's First Deputy Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev
Courting the West: Meeting Economic Development ChallengesIn Central Asia’s Only Parliamentary Democracy At the risk of increasing tensions with Moscow, the Kyrgyz Republic – more commonly known as Kyrgyzstan – is seeking help from the West to stabilize its economy in the wake of years of ethnic clashes, revolts, transitional governments and political party conflicts. Despite its troubles, the country maintains a unitary parliamentary republic, unique among the nations of Central Asia. Kyrgyz First Deputy Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev will discuss his country’s economic development…
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