The media and the public are invited to attend a news conference, hosted by the Global Family Day Program, on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at 11:30 am, in the Room H-137 in the U.S. Capitol Building. During this conference, Senate and House supporters, several Ambassadors, and baseball legend Doug Bair will talk about this powerful new tool for human unity (H. Con. Res. 221and S. Res. 357)

The Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes more than 2,200 students and professionals from 55 countries who are interested in global health and international development, public health, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education.

On Wednesday, December 2, Brookings Senior Fellow Benjamin Wittes will be available during an online web chat to answer questions about President Obama's plans for closing Guantánamo, Khalid Sheik Mohammed's upcoming trial and questions surrounding White House Counsel Greg Craig's sudden resignation, strongly rumored to have resulted from the missed deadline. Politico's Fred Barbash will moderate the discussion.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science will hold a discussion on the topic, "Countering WMD Proliferation in an Age of Globalized Science and Technology." Please RSVP online.

Hudson Institute's Center for Latin American Studies, in partnership with the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, cordially invites you to: "Challenges to Democracy in Latin America: The Case of Venezuela." To RSVP, please email isaratsis@hudson.org.

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The UW International Security Colloquium presents a lecture on the topic, "Targeted Killings: The Decline of the Norm Against Assassination?" For more information please contact Kristan Seibel at kseibel@u.washington.edu.

Please join us for the next Connect U.S. Fund/ Peace and Security Initiative community-wide meeting in Washington, DC. The meeting will focus on how our community can best support the foreign policy agenda we share with the Obama Administration, the progress made, and how we can work together to overcome roadblocks to continued progress on the President's vision. Register online.

The Universal Periodic Review Planning Committee of the US Human Rights Network will host a coordinating meeting on November 19 from 1-5 PM in Washington, DC. All those interested in becoming involved with the UPR process are welcome to attend. To obtain call-in information for this meeting or to RSVP, please email Laura at lbaum@ushrnetwork.org

This meeting, part of the Terrorism and Homeland Security Forum, is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center's International Security Studies and Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies. Register online.