Last week I attended a discussion titled "The Participation of Indigenous Peoples in OAS Activities: Recommendations and Next Steps” hosted by the Secretariat for External Relations of the Organization of American States. This seminar explored the indigenous community of Latin America and their relationship with the global community as well as some of the challenges to the indigenous people in the midst of a globalizing world.
The CSB/SJU group met with Al Eisele, Editor at Large at the Hill, a congressional newspaper based in Washington. This proved to be an ideal conference, as it is closely connected to the world of journalism, that I am currently experiencing at my internship to at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Erika Niedowski, an Associate Editor at the Hill, also joined the group. She spoke of her experience as a journalist in Russia as well as the language barrier challenges to reporting and publishing articles.
SJU grad Mr. Steve Yurek, president of AHRI, an air conditioning and heating trade organization also provided value insight in a later seminar meeting with the CSB.SJU group. The discussion with Mr. Yurek and his staff allowed me to take totally different perspective towards the role international affairs and its backbone. It is intriguing to notice how politics is like a thread that weaves through a basically every organization or company. Like the United Nations, CARICOM and the European Union, Trade Organizations also face a number of challenges when it comes to standard and codes in both the developing and developed world.
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