Department of State Press Releases

• Published on October 2, 2015 - 19:13 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Remarks on the 8th Annual Ministerial Meeting on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

  Hello everyone and thank you to the governments of Botswana, Liberia, and the Netherlands, along with the Global Centre for R2P, for convening us to mark the 10th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect. Ten years ago, the UN General Assembly …

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• Published on October 2, 2015 - 15:25 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): FY15/...

  This is the initial announcement of this funding opportunity, DRLA-DRLAQM-16-015 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345 Application Deadline: November 20, 2015 at 11:30PM A. Project Description The U.S. Department of State Bureau of …

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• Published on October 1, 2015 - 22:32 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travels to Central America and ...

  Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry will travel to Honduras from October 1 – 3, El Salvador on October 4 – 5, and Mexico from October 6 – 7 to discuss the human rights of LGBTI persons and other historically marginalized groups. …

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• Published on September 29, 2015 - 00:20 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Joint Statement on the Fifth Annual Lifeline: Embattled Civil Society Organizations Assistance ...

  The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of Australia, Benin, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United …

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• Published on September 25, 2015 - 00:43 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Resolution on Sri Lanka at the 30th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

  Today the United States, Sri Lanka, and our partners tabled a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that represents a landmark shared recognition of the critical importance of truth, justice, reparations, and guarantees of non-recurrence in …

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• Published on September 23, 2015 - 17:20 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Why Counterterrorism Needs Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): How Human Rights and Good ...

  Thank you so much for the warm introduction. It is a pleasure to be here today, especially at Columbia with folks like Professor Sarah Cleveland, Professor Elazar Barkan, and Greta Moseson here today. Since 9/11, the United States has arrayed a broad range …

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• Published on September 23, 2015 - 14:25 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: One-Year Follow-up Response of the United States of America to Priority Recommendations of the ...

  1. Pursuant to the Committee’s request, the United States provides the following information pertaining to the Committee’s recommendations in paragraphs 17 (a) and (b), 18, and 22 of its Concluding Observations adopted on August 26, 2014, focusing to the …

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• Published on September 15, 2015 - 19:32 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: International Day of Democracy

  We pause today to reflect on and celebrate democracy and the free and open debate it entails. We celebrate democracy not because it is easy or perfect, for it is obviously neither of those things. We celebrate democracy because it is rooted in the will of …

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• Published on September 12, 2015 - 00:00 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Background Briefing On the Mechanics of the United States Refugee Admissions Program

  MODERATOR: Thank you, Christy, and thank you all for joining us today. As a reminder, this call is on background. This call will be strictly on the mechanics of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. This call will not discuss policy issues, but rather on …

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• Published on September 8, 2015 - 15:43 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travels to the United Kingdom, ...

  Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry will travel September 8 – 16 to the United Kingdom, Belgium and Turkey. Special Envoy Berry will be in London September 8-9, in Brussels September 10-11, and in Istanbul and Ankara September …

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• Published on September 4, 2015 - 22:16 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall To Travel to ...

  Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall will travel to France and Switzerland September 8-9, 2015. Under Secretary Sewall will lead the United States delegation to the International Conference on the Victims …

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• Published on September 4, 2015 - 19:45 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Constitutional Reform Commission

  The United States notes with concern the decision by Rwanda’s Parliament and President Paul Kagame to establish a Constitutional Reform Commission that may amend or remove executive term limits and permit President Kagame to seek a third term in 2017. We …

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• Published on September 2, 2015 - 21:25 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: The New Tunisian Model of Governance

  As Prepared Thank you for that warm introduction. It’s a pleasure for me to be in Tunisia, and especially here at the Mediterranean Business School. Over the past three days I’ve met with Prime Minister Essid and other members of the government and …

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• Published on September 1, 2015 - 21:31 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: FreeThe20 Women Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Concern Campaign Launch

  MR TONER: Wow, full house, terrific. I welcome everyone. Happy Tuesday. Very delighted to have the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power here to launch the Free the 20 campaign to draw attention to the plight of women political prisoners and …

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• Published on August 28, 2015 - 14:28 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): The ...

  This is the initial announcement of this funding opportunity, DRLA-DRLAQM-16-010 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345 Application Deadline: October 30th, 2015 A. Project Description The Global Equality Fund, managed by the Bureau of …

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• Published on August 25, 2015 - 16:08 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Remarks at the Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  Ministers, it’s been a great honor and pleasure for me to come back to Sri Lanka, and to see you and to see the formation of this new government and all of the hope and promise that it represents. In just the short time since I was here last, and in the …

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• Published on August 24, 2015 - 19:52 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): ...

  This is the initial announcement of this funding opportunity, DRLA-DRLAQM-15-082. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345 Application Deadline: 30 October 2015; 11:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) A. Program Description The U.S. Department …

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• Published on August 17, 2015 - 15:35 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Request for Statements of Interest: Freedom of ...

  Public Notice Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Request for Statements of Interest: Freedom of Expression in Latin America I. Requested Statements of Interest Objectives The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces a Request …

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• Published on August 15, 2015 - 00:18 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Ambassador David Saperstein's Visit to Sudan

  From August 2-10, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein traveled to Khartoum to discuss religious freedom with government officials, religious leaders, and civil society representatives. In meetings with Sudanese …

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• Published on August 14, 2015 - 00:39 GMT

  Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: On-the-Record Briefing on the 19th U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue

  MS TRUDEAU: Great, thank you. It’s a great pleasure to welcome everyone today for a briefing by Assistant Secretary Malinowski who’s served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor since April 2014, after 13 years as the …

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