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SUMMARY:Uyghur Human Rights and Global Supply Chains
DESCRIPTION:The mass internment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region has been described by many nations as crimes against humanity\, if not genocide. What began as a significant human rights concern has also become a trade and commercial one: Xinjiang is a major global source of raw materials and components that are used in products worldwide. With the passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021\, U.S. importers now face a legal presumption that goods with ties to the region are made with forced labor. Supply chain due diligence now sits at the intersection of human rights\, national security\, and everyday business practice. \nCCWA is honored to be joined by Nury Turkel\, one of the world’s leading voices on Uyghur human rights\, to discuss the crisis in Xinjiang and its implications for the global economy. How did a regional campaign of repression become embedded in international supply chains? What leverage do companies\, consumers\, and governments have to pressure China into reforms? \nNury Turkel is an attorney\, author\, and human rights advocate\, and the first U.S.-educated Uyghur-American lawyer. Born in a re-education camp during China’s Cultural Revolution\, he came to the United States in 1995 and was later granted asylum. He co-founded the Uyghur Human Rights Project\, and served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2020 to 2024\, including as Chair from 2022 to 2023. His recommendations were incorporated into both the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act of 2021. His law practice focuses on export controls\, economic sanctions\, and supply chain due diligence. He is the author of No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs\, winner of the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing\, and was named to the TIME 100 in 2020 and Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2021. \n\nPlease note that this event will be held at the Martin L. King Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library. All are welcome!
URL:https://www.ccwa.org/events/uyghur-human-rights-and-global-supply-chains/
LOCATION:Martin L. King Branch of Cleveland Public Library\, 10601 Euclid Avenue\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
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SUMMARY:AI\, Automation\, and the Reshoring Boom
DESCRIPTION:After three decades of offshoring\, American manufacturing investment has turned sharply homeward. Tariffs\, pandemic-era supply chain shocks\, and a bipartisan turn toward industrial policy have pushed companies to build capacity in North America\, while the buildout of artificial intelligence has created enormous new demand for data centers and the power to run them. The reshoring boom raises difficult questions about infrastructure\, environmental concerns\, and workforce development. For a region historically built on manufacturing\, these issues will largely define the economic future of Northeast Ohio. \nCCWA is glad to be joined by Eaton’s Chief Economist\, Jordan Vickers\, to share his analysis of where the global manufacturing economy is heading and what it means for Northeast Ohio. How durable is the reshoring trend\, and how much of it survives a change in trade policy? Where is AI actually showing up in industrial productivity data\, as opposed to corporate announcements? And how can Northeast Ohio’s workforce and infrastructure keep pace with the trends in global manufacturing? \nJordan Vickers is Vice President\, Chief Economist at Eaton\, where he leads the company’s team of economists and advises senior leadership on the global economic outlook\, market forecasting\, and capital allocation. He has spent his career at the intersection of macroeconomics and industrial demand\, having served in various economic analyst roles in Eaton for nearly two decades. His analysis spans manufacturing and machinery markets\, construction and infrastructure cycles\, and regional economic conditions across North America\, Europe\, and Asia. \n\nPlease note that this event will be held at the Union Club of Cleveland. All are welcome!
URL:https://www.ccwa.org/events/ai-automation-and-the-reshoring-boom/
LOCATION:The Union Club\, 1211 Euclid Ave.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44115\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCWA Event,Foreign Policy Forum,Public Forum
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SUMMARY:The New Landscape of Global Aid and Health Security
DESCRIPTION:The architecture of the past six decades of global aid and health security has been dismantled in a remarkably short span of time. USAID\, for many years the primary vehicle for American development and humanitarian assistance\, was dissolved in 2025. In January 2026\, the United States formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Other donor governments have made cuts of their own\, and the institutions that monitor outbreaks\, move food and medicine\, and coordinate emergency response are operating with far less money and far fewer people than they had two years ago. The consequences are already being tested in real time\, from the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo to displacement crises in Sudan\, Gaza\, and beyond. \nCCWA is glad to be joined by Jeremy Konydyk\, President of Refugees International\, who has led American disaster and pandemic response efforts under two administrations\, to assess what has changed and what comes next. Who fills the aid gaps left by American withdrawal? What does health security look like when surveillance and response capacity have thinned? And what obligations\, if any\, does the United States retain in a system that it largely built? \nJeremy Konyndyk is President of Refugees International\, an independent advocacy organization for displaced people that accepts no government or United Nations funding. He served in the Biden administration as USAID’s lead official for COVID-19\, overseeing the agency’s multibillion-dollar pandemic assistance portfolio and the U.S. donation of hundreds of millions of vaccine doses\, and later as the administration’s lead official on the global mpox response. From 2013 to 2017\, he directed USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance\, where he led the American response to international disasters. Between his government appointments he was a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development\, focusing on humanitarian reform and pandemic preparedness.  \n\nPlease note that this event will be held at the Union Club of Cleveland. All are welcome!
URL:https://www.ccwa.org/events/the-new-landscape-of-global-aid-and-health-security/
LOCATION:The Union Club\, 1211 Euclid Ave.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44115\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCWA Event,Foreign Policy Forum,Public Forum
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