News from 2023
Report to Congress on 2023 Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment Pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
Release: Actions Against Governments Failing to Meet Minimum Standards.
Secretary Antony J. Blinken Opening Remarks Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations On the FY24 Department of State Budget Request
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, thank you very much, Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Risch, committee members. Very good to be with you today as always, and thanks for the opportunity to speak to the administration’s proposed FY24 budget for the State Department and the Agency for International Development.
Secretary Antony J. Blinken Opening Remarks Before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, on the FY24 Department of State Budget Request
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very, very much. Chairman Coons, Ranking Member Graham, very good to be with you. Chair Murray, Vice Chair Collins, to all the committee members here today, thank you for this opportunity to speak with you about our proposed FY24 budget for the State Department and USAID.
Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with Belarusian Democratic Leader Tsikhanouskaya
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
News Release: The following is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel
2022 Memorandum of Justification Consistent with Section 110(b)(2)(D) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
Release: Section 110(b)(2)(D) of the TVPA (22 U.S.C. § 7107(b)(2)(D)) requires a country that has been included on the Tier 2 Watch List for two consecutive years and has not been upgraded to Tier 1 or Tier 2 to be included in the following year’s report as Tier 3. The governments of Tier 3 countries are those governments that do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and are not making significant efforts to do so.
Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with Belarusian Democratic Leader Tsikhanouskaya
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
Release: The following is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel.
Risch, Colleagues Encourage EU to Designate IRGC as Terrorist Organization
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently led Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Todd Young (R-Ind.), ...
HFAC, SFRC Leadership Call for Caesar Sanctions Against Assad Regime Intelligence Officer
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) along with Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary...
Designation of Paraguayan Officials Edgar Melgarejo, Jorge Bogarin, and Vicente Ferreira for Involvement in Significant Corruption
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
News Release: Today the United States is announcing the designations of the former Director of the Paraguayan Civil Aviation Authority Edgar Melgarejo, current member of the Paraguayan Panel for the Discipline of Judges and Prosecutors Jorge Bogarin, and current Court Clerk Vicente Ferreira for their involvement in significant corruption under Section 7031(c) of the annual Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act.
Secretary Antony J. Blinken Opening Remarks Before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs On the FY24 Department of State Budget Request
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very much. Chairman Diaz-Balart, Chairwoman Granger, Ranking Member Lee, Ranking Member DeLauro, all the members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity today to speak with you about the FY24 budget for the State Department and USAID. But also, thank you day-in, day-out ...
DOS-ECA offers new grant application process starting March 24
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
FY 2023 U.S. Speaker Program grant opened on March 24.
Fourth Anniversary of the Global Coalition’s Territorial Defeat of Daesh/ISIS in Syria and Iraq
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
News Release: Fourth Anniversary of the Global Coalition’s Territorial Defeat of Daesh/ISIS in Syria and Iraq
DOS-JPN offers new grant application process starting March 24
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
International Science and Engineering Online Training. grant opened on March 24.
Joint Statement on the U.S.-Moldova Strategic Dialogue
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Moldova.
McCaul Statement on TikTok CEO Testifying on the Hill Today
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement on TikTok CEO Shou Chew testifying before Congress today.
Invocation of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to Examine Reports of Human Rights Abuses Committed by Lukashenka Regime
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
Release: The United States and 37 other countries have invoked the OSCE Moscow Mechanism requesting that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) establish an expert mission to examine the dire and continuous deterioration of the human rights situation in Belarus.
DOS-MAR grant application closes on May 12
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
Support for Emerging Moroccan Filmmakers grant opened on March 24.
DOS-UZB grant application closes on April 24
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
Cultural Affairs Small Grants Program grant opened on March 24.
U.S. Humanitarian and Development Assistance for Venezuela Regional Crisis
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
News Release: The United States is the largest single donor for the humanitarian response to the Venezuela regional crisis, providing assistance that supports refugees, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable populations of concern. More than 7.7 million people inside Venezuela need immediate humanitarian assistance and more than 6 million Venezuelans have been displaced in 17 countries across the region since 2015.
DRL Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Sri Lanka Transitional Justice
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2023
Release: This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009569.