via Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The German Ambassador to the United Nations issued a statement on behalf of 39 countries denouncing the human rights situation in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, calling on the People’s Republic of China to uphold their basic responsibilities to their own citizens.
by Christoph Heusgen, German Ambassador to the United Nations
H.R. McMaster in conversation with Ambassador Mariangela Zappia, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 9:00 AM PT.
Not far from my backyard, two big public-school systems are on the verge of letting their attentiveness to equity and racial justice lead to consequences they may end up regretting. And that saddens me, both as their neighbor and as one who cherishes both pluribus and unum, both excellence and equity.
by Shirin Ebadi, Abbas Milani, Hamid Moghadamvia The Hill
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has become increasingly paranoid, and thus even more of a pariah. It is concerned about signs of seething popular anger over the dire economic conditions of its people. The regime’s inept management of the coronavirus pandemic and sanctions imposed by the U.S. have compounded these tensions. Nothing captures the nature of the country’s economic woes as well as the fall in the value of the country’s currency.
We call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2020 Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in “The 1619 Project.” That essay was entitled, “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written.” But it turns out the article itself was false when written.
