In the wake of Hillary Clinton's jam-packed, whirlwind, three-legged trip to the Middle East to nurture the peace talks, a trip from which she is likely not yet wheels down in the U.S.A., comes a wealth of press releases from the State Department in the run-up to next week's opening session of U.N. General Assembly which coincides with her husband's Clinton Global Initiative.
I chose the verb nurture above because it is a very feminine verb, and Hillary's approach to encouraging the talks was a decidedly feminine one. Going forward into another whirlwind week in New York City, her kitten heels remain planted in female territory, the kitchen, and her agenda focused on women's work and maternal issues. Hillary Clinton is probably the most adept person on earth at explaining how helping women, sometimes in very small, inexpensive ways, can change the future of a nation, and next week she is going to explain that in some detail, at various events.
Here are the press releases from today that help us piece together what some of next week will look like. I get very psyched when she is in NYC for UNGA. It is very exciting. It is going to be great!
Secretary Clinton and Irish Foreign Minister Martin to Host "1,000 Days: Change a Life, Change the Future" Event on Reducing Child Undernutrition
Office of the SpokesmanWashington, DCSeptember 16, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin will host a "1,000 Days" event in support of nutrition and food security efforts that focus on the crucial 1,000 day window for maternal and child health, on September 21 at approximately 9:15 a.m. at the InterContinental Hotel in New York City.
“1,000 Days: Change a Life, Change the Future” seeks to catalyze action to combat child undernutrition, focusing on programs targeted at the 1,000 days window of opportunity beginning with a woman’s pregnancy through a child’s second birthday.
The event provides a platform for the international community to highlight its work in nutrition, including the development of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Roadmap.
The Ministers will discuss the joint U.S.-Ireland effort to focus energy on priority actions within the SUN Roadmap – around the critical 1,000 day window and for 1,000 days.
Ireland and the United States have already made reducing hunger and undernutrition a key development and foreign policy priority: Ireland with its launch of a Hunger Task Force and the United States with Feed the Future and the Global Health Initiative. “1,000 Days” is more than simply one event; it includes commitments to specific follow-up actions to advance the SUN Roadmap and aims to support a broad-based movement to improve child nutrition.
Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Martin will be joined by leaders from other governments, the United Nations, civil society and the private sector. These leaders all share the goal of reaching the first Millennium Development Goal by eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
InterContinental Barclay Hotel
111 East 48th Street
New York, NYThis event will be webcast live and open to credentialed members of the media.
Secretary Clinton to Announce New Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves at Clinton Global Initiative September 21
Office of the SpokesmanWashington, DCSeptember 16, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will formally announce the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a new public-private initiative to create a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions that will save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change. The announcement will occur at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting on September 21 at approximately 1:00 p.m.
Along with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and other Founding Partners, Secretary Clinton will outline partnership and financial commitments of the Alliance. Led by the United Nations Foundation, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will address one of the greatest threats facing developing countries and their populations— the extraordinarily high exposures to toxic smoke from indoor fires and inefficient cookstoves which lead to nearly 2 million deaths each year, with young children and adult women suffering the vast majority of this disease burden.
Secretary Clinton's speech will be streamed live on www.state.gov and http://live.clintonglobalinitiative.org.
Further details about next week's events and agenda will be outlined tomorrow by Assistant Secretary Esther Brimmer.
Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer to Brief on U.S. UNGA Priorities
Office of the SpokesmanWashington, DCSeptember 16, 2010
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Esther Brimmer will brief the press on the Administration’s goals and priorities for the upcoming UN General Assembly and some of the Secretary’s key activities during the week. This briefing will be on-the-record / on-camera and will take place in the Department of State Press Briefing Room (Room 2209) on Friday September 17th at 12:00 p.m.
As the news comes out, I will post it here, so stay tuned! Speaking of tuning, tune in on John Stewart tonight to hear Bill Clinton talk about CGI. Tune in on This Week with Christiane Amanpour on Sunday to see Hillary!
