Warning the Public Health emergency is quickly becoming a human rights crisis how many limitations are people willing to accept to fight a threat like coronavirus. Kenneth roth welcome to conflict zone thanks for having me. There are very immediate needs amid this coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands have already died a qana means have been hit hard many people are losing their jobs some are even trying to figure out how to put food on the table in these extraordinary times how do you put human rights at the top of the agenda. Well i think its important sara to note that human rights allow certain extraordinary governmental powers in time of a genuine public emergency or crisis like were facing now so you know nobody objects from a human rights perspective to the efforts to limit our trouble to inforce social distancing to do the things that are necessary and proportionate to our Public Health needs but when autocrats say oh we need you does violate your human rights left and rig
Warning the Public Health emergency is quickly becoming a human rights crisis how many limitations are people willing to accept to fight a threat like coronavirus. I. Canot roth welcome to conflict zone. Thanks for having me. There are very immediate needs amid this coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands have already died a qana means have been hit hard many people are losing their jobs some are even trying to figure out how to put food on the table in these extraordinary times how do you put human rights at the top of the agenda. Well i think its important sara to note that human rights allow certain extraordinary governmental powers in time of a genuine public emergency or crisis like were facing now so you know nobody objects from a human rights perspective to the efforts to limit our trouble to inforce social distancing to do the things that are necessary and proportionate to our Public Health needs but when autocrats say oh we need you does violate your human rights left and r
Secretary of state mike pompeo discussed Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations at a Virtual Summit posted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He talked about the west relationship with china, warning about that countries influence and their handling of the coronavirus pandemic and treatment of hong kong. Good morning. Good afternoon from brussels. Welcome back to 2020 and today we are very pleased and honored to welcome u. S. Secretary of state Michael Pompeo for a special conversation. We hosted the secretary in brussels and we are pleased to have him back again for what is sure to be a closely watched conversation on typical challenges facing less than Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations. As always, let me say a word of thanks to our part Founding Partners in the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and deloitte and supporting Knowledge Partners we are grateful to all of you. Let me say a very special thank you to u. S. Missions European Union and all three f
Back. We had a great session last night. This of course is the 2019 International Conference on the American Revolution. Were meeting at the museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia. Were very thankful to our sponsors. Richard c von hess foundation, and john am jeanne roe. Theres a long genie all itchy to this topic. It goes back more than a quarter century. Very personal for me. It starts with insight thats brought out in the exhibition that is celebrated, here the life and death of a irish soldier. This explores connections between the American Revolution and ireland through the eyes of st. George, both a soldier and. Artist not a fine artist, a caricaturist. Of course we know that satire and mockery, something we use a lot here among the staff at the museum can reveal a lot about culture. This is certainly a theme that comes up. About 30 years ago when i was a graduate student doing research for a dissertation chapter in edinburgh, there was another graduate student at the
Warning the Public Health emergency is quickly becoming a human rights crisis how many limitations are people willing to accept in order to fight a threat like coronavirus. Kenneth roth welcome to conflict zone thanks for having me. There are very immediate needs amid this coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands have already died a qana means have been hit hard many people are losing their jobs some are even trying to figure out how to put food on the table in these extraordinary times how do you put human rights at the top of the agenda. Well i think its important sara to note that human rights allow certain extraordinary governmental powers in time of a genuine public emergency or crisis like were facing now so you know nobody objects from a human rights perspective to the efforts to limit our trouble to inforce social distancing to do the things that are necessary and proportionate to our Public Health needs but when autocrats say oh we need you does violate your human rights lef