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Yemen Signs UNIDROIT Convention Against Trafficked Cultural Property

Yemen Signs UNIDROIT Convention Against Trafficked Cultural Property

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Yemen recently agreed to an international treaty on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects. The treaty is aimed at remedying one of the main weaknesses of the 1970 UNESCO Convention against illicit trafficking of cultural artifacts. On October 7, the Republic of Yemen acceded to the UNIDROIT Convention, along with the compulsory declarations. The UNIDROIT Convention seeks to fight the illegal sale and purchase of cultural property by encouraging buyers to do their due diligence during the acquisition process. The country will now adopt mechanisms that facilitate the protection, claim, repatriation, and return of stolen and illegally exported cultural objects. The treaty will enter into effect for Yemen on next year on April 1. Related Articles The signing of the UNIDROIT Convention followed Yemen’s ratification of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in June, which went into effect on September 5. Yemen’s Ambassador to UNESCO, Mohammed Jumeh, signed the treaty on behalf of the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Dr. Jumeh noted that Yemen will gain the necessary legal support …

What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

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  In 1786, the young United States of America was nearly ripped apart by Shays’ Rebellion. Angry farmers suffering from debt and taxes were forming mobs that were using direct democracy—and intimidation—to overthrow local governments and suspend debts. Local militias, composed of men in similar situations, refused to put down the mobs of farmers. After the rebellion was finally put down by a privately funded army, many Americans were eager for a stronger central government that could maintain order and security. Toward this end, states sent delegates to Pennsylvania that upcoming summer. While they started out by simply making revisions to the Articles of Confederation, they quickly realized that more drastic changes were needed.   Setting the Stage: Articles of Confederation An image of the cover text of the Articles of Confederation, which was the United States’ governing document before the US Constitution. Source: Library of Congress   The Thirteen Colonies declared themselves an independent nation, the United States of America, on July 4, 1776. Sixteen months later, during the American Revolutionary War, the Continental …

Kamala Harris’s Momentum at the Convention

Kamala Harris’s Momentum at the Convention

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“Will this propel her forward?” Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic August 24, 2024, 3:11 PM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here. With the Democratic National Convention now behind Kamala Harris, the vice president is officially the Democratic presidential nominee—but now some are asking how her campaign can translate the momentum from recent weeks into winning over voters in key swing states. The optimism felt among many Democrats at the convention was, in part, the result of forces beyond Harris herself, Mark Leibovich said last night on Washington Week With The Atlantic: Harris has benefited from the release of pent-up unhappiness about Joe Biden leading the presidential ticket and, so far, from the choice of Tim Walz as her running mate. “This week has been a culmination of that,” Leibovich said. But “it can’t be a culmination. It has to continue. And the question is, will …

Trump recounts attempted assassination in Republican National Convention speech

Trump recounts attempted assassination in Republican National Convention speech

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Former US president Donald Trump, in his first speech since surviving an attempted assassination, accepted his nomination for president Thursday at the last night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He struck a softer tone than usual in the first part of his speech, recounting his experience of the attempt on his life, before moving on to his agenda should he win office, including the largest deportation project in US history. Source link

Barron Trump officially in the mix, repping Florida at Republican National Convention

Barron Trump officially in the mix, repping Florida at Republican National Convention

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Barron Trump — the youngest of Donald Trump’s brood, who turned 18 on March 20 — is joining his siblings in the family’s political endeavors as a newly selected at-large delegate, representing Florida at the Republican National Convention in July. Having yet to even receive his high school diploma, the newly legal Trump has enjoyed a relatively private life, until now, but a Trump campaign official told ABC News that an interest in the family biz has always been there. “Yes, he’s on the delegation roster and Barron is very interested in our nation’s political process,” the campaign official said. NBC News was the first to spread the word that the Florida GOP tapped young Trump for the slot, sharing a statement from Florida GOP chairman Evan Power, saying, “We have a great delegation of grassroots leaders, elected officials and even Trump family members. Florida is continuing to have a great convention team, but more importantly we are preparing to win Florida and win it big.” Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law, was named co-chair of the RNC back in March. In a …

Barron Trump will serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican convention

Barron Trump will serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican convention

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Former President Donald Trump greets people after announcing he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2022 as his son, Barron Trump, watches. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Former President Donald Trump greets people after announcing he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2022 as his son, Barron Trump, watches. Andrew Harnik/AP Barron Trump, the youngest of the former president’s children, will make his political debut this summer as a delegate at the Republican National Convention. His name appears on a list of Florida delegates — along with other members of the Trump family — at the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July. The list, released Wednesday, also includes Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Tiffany Trump and her husband, Michael Boulos. “Barron is very interested in our nation’s political process,” according to a source familiar with the selection. The former president’s older children …

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson face test with Chicago convention

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson face test with Chicago convention

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will face a test this summer with the Democratic National Convention, which protesters of the Biden administration’s handling of Israel’s war with Hamas are already targeting. The success of the convention could provide a boost to Pritzker, a two-term governor seen as a future candidate for the 2028 Democratic nomination, and Johnson, who has been struggling with a low approval rating and the potential for a recall effort down the line.  The last thing either need is a Chicago convention that might draw comparisons to the chaos of the 1968 convention, when police in the city battled those protesting the Vietnam War. Projecting leadership that protects free speech, public safety and a sense of order, on the other hand, could benefit the Illinois and Chicago leaders hosting President Biden and his party. “The whole world will be watching how the governor performs here, and regardless of his political ambitions, he has an opportunity here to show the whole world what he’s been for Illinois — calm, …

Full house! Humanists UK 2024 Convention sells out in Cardiff!

Full house! Humanists UK 2024 Convention sells out in Cardiff!

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Tickets for Humanists UK Convention 2024 have now sold out, with well over 500 humanists booked to attend this summer’s festival of humanism from across Wales, the UK, and beyond. Over 14–16 June, 500 humanists will converge on Cardiff for three days. The event has reached new heights in 2024, selling out for the first time since before Covid, even as more speakers are due to be announced. Cardiff was always going to be a fantastic host city for Humanists UK Convention 2024. The conference will be a celebration of the successes of secularism and humanism in Wales and Welsh public life. More than 100 years on from the disestablishment of the Church in Wales, tolerance and pluralism have taken root in a modern and confident nation. Today, Wales benefits from a devolved Assembly instituted as a secular body; an open, flourishing, and enriched civic sphere; and strong support for equality and human rights across all demographics, including the right to freedom of religion or belief. Humanists UK Convention is always a highlight of the …

DNC votes to restore New Hampshire’s delegates for this summer’s convention

DNC votes to restore New Hampshire’s delegates for this summer’s convention

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The Democratic National Committee voted Tuesday to reinstate New Hampshire’s delegates ahead of this summer’s convention in Chicago, ending months of fighting over the state’s 2024 presidential primary.   “We as a committee and as a national committee have gone through a difficult number of weeks and months of getting to this point, and I know that New Hampshire has gone through a difficult number of weeks and months where some things we’d like to have seen take place did not,” Jim Roosevelt, the co-chair of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, said during a meeting on Tuesday. “As it happens, all that is behind us now. We have worked out compliance with our rules and with the charter.” New Hampshire, which has a state law on the books requiring it to hold the first presidential primary, had refused to comply with a new Democratic calendar that moved South Carolina to the front of the line. As a result, President Joe Biden did not file to appear on the ballot for New Hampshire’s unsanctioned Jan. 23 …