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United Nations executive elevates women through sustainable development efforts
The United Nations hopes to promote equality for women while improving development around the world, an organization executive said at a Feb. 23 National Press Club Newsmaker event. Under-secretary General Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said that the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals include specific targets to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment by 2030. “We now have a new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which we believe will help us to achieve a more sustainable, inclusive, peaceful and equal world,” she said. "We are a young organization with a giant mandate, to act as…
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Newsmaker panel sees autism as 2016 election issue
John Donvan and Caren Zucker, authors of the current New York Times bestseller, "In A Different Key: The Story of Autism," described a little-understood voting block that over time has succeeded in getting individuals with autism out of institutions and into schools at a Feb. 17 National Press Club Newsmaker. Next on its list: more support for adults with autism, the authors said. Donvan, a television correspondent for ABC, also serves as the host and moderator of the Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates, which are heard on public radio and by podcast. Zucker is a television producer who has…
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GOP policy chair Messer names terror and wage stagnation main challenges
House Republican Policy Chair Rep. Luke Messer (R-Ind.) told a National Press Club Newsmaker Feb. 17 that “the two main challenges” facing the country are the war on terror and wage stagnation. “We are locked in battle with Islamic extremists who want to destroy us. It is the Cold War of our time,” he said. He contended that “shrinking paychecks” and “wage stagnation” for low and middle income workers “flat lined” over the past 30 years and are “the driver causing collapse of the American dream.” Messer, who presides over the House Republican Policy Committee and is in the congressional…
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Stiglitz, fellow panelists decry dispute settlement process under TPP, other trade agreements
A panel of experts on trade agreements objected to the dispute settlement mechanism included in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and many other trade agreements at a Newsmaker event Feb. 11. The enforcement mechanism is called the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). TPP was signed by the United States and 11 other nations this month, but it must be agreed to by Congress, which congressional leaders say may not happen until after the election. ISDS is included in 3,000 trade agreements worldwide and in 50 to which the U.S. is a party, according to the U.S. Special Trade…
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Author presents story of Afghan lovers fearing honor killing
"Without all the publicity, they'd be dead by now." That was the judgment of Club member Rod Nordland about Ali and Zakia, the subjects of his new book, "The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing," which was featured at a National Press Club Book Rap Feb. 10. The book tells the story of Ali and Zakia, whose relationship was (and remains) dangerous because it crosses ethnic, sectarian and customary boundaries. Nordland was Kabul bureau chief for The New York Times. He said he "was waiting for a 'good' honor killing…
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Polish resistance fighter retells story 37 years after first recounting at Post 20
Julian Kulski returned as a speaker to the NPC after 37 years Wednesday, Feb. 10, to recount his harrowing experiences as a teen in the Polish resistance army at an open meeting of the Club's American Legion Post 20. Kulski, who was rescued in 1945 from a German POW camp by the U.S. Army, is a U.S. citizen and architect who recently authored a recounting of his wartime experiences in his book "The Color of Courage," a sequel to an earlier book on the same subject featured at an Club event 37 years ago. The earlier event was sponsored by the Polish embassy at a time when Poland was still…
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Episcopal presiding bishop notes Anglican suspension, underlines evangelism and racial reconciliation
Differences in “core doctrine” are at the heart of the three-year suspension of the 1.8-million-member U.S. Episcopal Church, due to its continued support of same-sex marriage, by the 85-million-member world wide Anglican Communion, Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, told a National Press Club Newsmaker audience Feb. 8. The suspension, which came last month in meetings in Canterbury, England, ensures that Episcopalians “can’t cast votes on matters of polity and restricts ambassadorial duties such as representing the Anglican Communion on ecumenical and interfaith bodies…
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House Transportation Committee chairman proposes non-profit air traffic control
As chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) is pushing legislation that would create a private non-profit corporation to operate the nation's air traffic control system while leaving safety and certification with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), he told a National Press Club Newsmakers event Feb. 4. Shuster anticipates holding a hearing on the legislation, the Aviation Innovation Reform and Reauthorization Act, introduced Feb. 2, on Wednesday, Feb. 10 and finalizing the bill in markup Feb. 11. The change is needed because the American…
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National Press Club members tour Washington Post newsroom
A week before the inauguration of The Washington Post's new headquarters, on Jan. 21, members of the National Press Club toured its new high-tech newsroom, which includes television studios to allow reporters to appear on a number of television shows simultaneously, and produce video for the Post’s website. Tracy Grant, deputy managing editor for the Post, conducted the tour pointing out the state-of-the-art technology and sharing anecdotes about news stories and the paper. After the tour, the group was invited to sit in on the afternoon story conference where editors and reporters…
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Five-part Update-1 social media series concludes on a business note
The fifth and final Update-1 podcast on social media from the National Press Club examines why some companies haven't been as successful as they had hoped. NPC Broadcast Committee member Jennifer Strong interviews former New York Times reporter and former Columbia University social-media professor Sree Sreenivasan about opportunities news organizations are missing to maximize the benefits of social media. Later in the podcast, Strong talks with Huffington Post Senior Technology Editor Alexander Howard about the new redesign for the Google Plus site and the future of Google and Google Plus.…
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