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Human Rights Watch today called for governments to suspend the trade of surveillance technology until a regulatory framework to protect the rights of individuals/groups is in place. That demand follows a report that Pegasus spyware developed by Israel-based NSO Group was used to track journalists and activists.
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Ex-Congressman Bill Delahunt inks $200K pact to supply US government relations services to Ukraine's top agicultural machinery maker.
Peter Kucik, a seven-year veteran of the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, has joined Mercury as managing director in DC.
Jess Smith, who was managing director of operations in Burson-Marsteller's public affairs & crisis group, is now chief of staff for Colorado Senator Michael Bennet.
Rational 360 has signed a $600K pact to provide strategic communications services to Kenya.
Finsbury Glover Hering has picked up Pivotal Ventures, the investment and incubation company launched by Melinda Gates to advance social progress in the US.
Qatar has signed a $30K monthly government affairs contract with Integrated Strategy Group, the firm co-founded by former Democratic Congressman and National Football League quarterback Heath Shuler.
Mercury’s Gabriella Castillo, who served the Joe Biden campaign in Florida as deputy state director, has joined the Commerce Dept. as PA director.
Teneo has acquired a minority stake in WestExec Advisors, the DC geopolitical firm that was co-founded by secretary of state Tony Blinken, and adds former senator Chris Dodd as senior advisor.
Anita Dunn, founding member SKDKnickerbocker who returned to the firm after advising the Biden/Harris ticket, is rejoining Team Biden to work on the transition.
President-elect Joe Biden has named campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon deputy chief of staff.
UK prime minister Boris Johnson is losing his communications director as Lee Cain, a former Vote Leave official, plans to call it quits early next year.
KP Public Affairs is handling PR for the launch of California’s “Don’t Get Caught Off Guard” campaign to educate people about the Golden State’s earthquake warning system. Ad agency Pulsar is the lead on the push.
FDA external affairs chief John "Wolf" Wagner, a political appointee of president Trump, is out as fallout continues from commissioner Stephen Hahn's misstatements about benefits blood plasma to treat COVID-19.
SKDKnickerbocker is working the $35M “Vote Safe California” marketing communications program to bolster voter participation in the November election.
Pundits who believe the presidential debates should be scrapped display the classic “throw the baby out with the bathwater” reaction. Let’s fix them instead.
Olivia Lapeyrolerie, first deputy press secretary for New York mayor Bill de Blasio, is exiting City Hall for a VP slot at Democratic PR firm SKDKnickerbocker.
Xenophon Strategies has a nearly $600K contract with Uzbekistan designed to highlight its progress on improving human rights with the goal of ending the cotton boycott erected against the former Soviet republic.
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, one of the highest-ranking Black officials in the Trump administration, has resigned to protest the president 's handling of racial issues.
Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai has recast his media team with the departure of press secretary Tina Pelkey, who is joining Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company as senior manager, government affairs communication.
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