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My paper on the importance of transatlantic data flows for trade and investment was quoted by European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip in a speech in June this year in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Department of Commerce has told me a number of times that this paper is the most widely quoted work in the Department and is used frequently in their negotiations with the EU over digital trade issues.
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Who would have predicted security cooperation between Israel and Bahrain, defense cooperation between Israel and Morocco, or the free trade agreement between the UAE and Israel? In this commentary for The Times of Israel, AJC Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer Jason Isaacson highlights the miraculous feats made possible in the two years since the ceremonial signing of the Abraham Accords.
The tension crafted by the President has drawn attention to the complex political dynamic faced by the UK. It must now seek to tighten relations with an American President who is at once pro-Brexit; verbosely attacking key European partners on both security and trade; and strangely cosy with Russia.
Two new surveys show that both American and British businesses hope to prioritize transatlantic trade ties in the Brexit era, as the U.K. drifts from its European cousins and towards a more americanophile economic and diplomatic strategy.
And for the Brits, a majority of business leaders surveyed wanted to prioritize a free-trade deal with the U.S. over one with the EU and China, despite fears among some British politicians and voters that such an agreement would open the country up to damaging U.S. business practices.
But more progressive politicians are warning that the U.K., as a junior partner in a prospective trade deal, could be forced to accept the lower regulatory standards of the U.S., undermining food hygiene and quality, workers' rights and environmental safeguards.
Lawmakers in the U.S. have also been sounding the alarm, warning that Congress will not ratify any trade deal perceived to undermine the Good Friday Agreement that ended Northern Ireland's bitter sectarian conflict, a key facet of which is a demilitarized border between the province and the Republic of Ireland to the south.
The U.K. and its 66 million people offer a tantalizing economic opportunity for American firms, especially if its currency continues to devalue in the face of a chaotic Brexit. Western Union said U.S.-U.K. trade in goods and services was valued at $261.4 billion in 2018, citing the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Among this was $140.4 billion worth of exports.
Featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Enslaved documents 400 years of human trafficking. Over 12 million Africans were sold into slavery. 2 million died en route. Enslaved tracks DWP, a collaborating organization of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers, as they locate sunken slave ships. These efforts serve as springboards telling the lost history of the transatlantic slave trade.
This work was supported by the Intramural Research Programs, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (ZO1 DK043308, to J.B.K.) and has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, under contract 75N91019D00024 (to C.A.W.). The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply endorsement by the US Government. The authors also thank Al Kane, Scientific Publications, Graphics, and Media, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and Erina He, Visual Arts, NIH, for assistance with the figures before submission.
A volunteer traveller on the inaugural transatlantic trial of CommonPass prepares to board the flight from London to Newark. The CommonPass health pass allows travellers to securely share their COVID status across international borders while protecting their privacy. (Photo: Business Wire)
NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Commons Project Foundation and the World Economic Forum today announced the first successful transatlantic trial of CommonPass, a digital health pass aimed at enabling safer travel and the reopening of international borders.
"The video follows the route of English painter Eyre Crowe's visit to the city in March 1853. He arrived along the the Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad and stayed at the high-end American Hotel one block south of Capitol Square. On his first full day in the city, hoping to find "a possibly dramatic subject for pictoral illustration," Crowe set out into Shockoe Bottom to witness several slave auctions. Crowe recorded what he saw there in his powerful painting Slaves Waiting for Sale. Over a hundred and fifty years later many seek to understand more about the slave trade. The sites where people were bought and sold in Richmond have been obliterated by twentieth-century development, many of them under an interstate. This video is meant to help viewers imagine what the built environment of mid-nineteenth-century Richmond looked like and recognize the significant physical footprint of slave trading in its commercial district." ( last accessed, Oct. 6, 2016)
"This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on English slave trade from 1791-1799. Specifically, the data file contains information on the ship's name, tonnage, home port, departure date from England, African port of arrival, date of African arrival, slaves taken on board (total actually purchased), slave mortality, number of slaves transported, date of departure from Africa, date of arrival in New World, number of slaves landed in America, and date ship left America." (last accessed, Oct. 6, 2016)
This document explains recommended practices for data collection, metadata creation, data extraction, and related workflows for Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org). Enslaved.org is a digital platform to learn about the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical slave trade. A primary goal of Enslaved.org is to record the names of enslaved women, men, and children of African descent.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is one of the worst crimes against humanity in history. Since the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century, not a single redress or reparation has been made to Africans affected by the dehumanizing trade. This panel, sponsored by the American Society of International Law's Africa Interest Group, aims to address three major related topics: 1) reparations for the injustices committed against enslaved Africans and their descendants; 2) reparations for the trauma inflicted on Africa societies; and 3) the process of healing between Africans affected by slavery around the globe.
"This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica." (last accessed, Oct. 6, 2016)
This unique publication unites a range of collections upon slavery for the first time. With a focus upon Jamaica and the West Indies, they also cover tensions in the anti-slavery movement as Christians challenged churches on their acceptance of proceeds from slavery; while transatlantic tensions were exacerbated when British protestors criticised slavery in the fledgling United States. These papers' coverage is mainly focussed upon the eighteenth and nineteenth century, a time period over which abolitionist views would grow in prominence and Government views on the practice would change markedly; from The papers of Samuel Martin, 1694-1776, relating to Antigua to the Ord report on the West Coast of Africa, 1865. The British Government's developing interest in the impact of the slave trade can be seen in both the Report of the Commissioners on African Settlements: report on the slave trade, 1811 and the Report of the Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa, 1842. As the Government's concern about the ethics of slavery grew, the business community had much to gain from resisting any move that could damage their profits. Some of the content included here features records from these businesses of a more general nature such as Lascelles and Maxwell letterbooks, 1739-1769 and Material relating to the West Indies from the Senhouse papers, 1762-1831. Other slavery business records record more statistical data in the form of ledgers, as with the Log and journal of the Bristol ship, Black Prince, 1762-1764 and the Jamaica plantation records from the Dickinson papers, 1675-1849 as well as the Records of the Jamaican Prospect Estate: plantation ledgers, 1785-1817. As opposition to slavery grew, the abolitionists formed societies through which they could campaign for the end of slavery. Different societies took different approaches to challenging slavery. The Anti-Slavery Society papers: Trinidad, 1836-1842 cover attempts to educate the children of slaves. Whilst other societies forged links with American abolitionist societies, despite the transatlantic tensions that made such relationships challenging. Examples of such links can be found in The Rhodes House papers: material relating to America from anti-slavery collection in Rhodes House, Oxford, 1839-1868 as well as in The Estlin Papers, 1840-1844. A number of memoirs and research papers in relation to Jamaica and slavery, though from a British perspective, can be found amongst the Materials on the history of Jamaica in the Edward Long papers, 1734-1813. Through a combination of statistics, correspondence, pamphlets and memoirs, these papers offer contemporaneous insights into the worldviews of slavery's critics and advocates. 041b061a72