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Joint Statement on Media Freedom by the United States and the Czech Republic

Release: Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Lipavský, on behalf of the Governments of the United States and the Czech Republic, released the following joint statement.


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Regional Conference of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Ending Human Trafficking 2023

Release: Good morning, Excellencies and distinguished participants in this important conference. My name is Cindy Dyer, and as the United States Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, I head the office at the U.S. Department of State that leads the United States’ global engagement to combat human trafficking and supports the coordination of anti-trafficking efforts across the U.S. government.


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Engaging Survivors of Human Trafficking

Release: Survivor Engagement in the Anti-Trafficking Field: History, Lessons Learned, and Looking Forward.


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Telephonic Press Conference with Katie Tobin, Special Assistant to President Biden and Senior Director for Transborder at the National Security Council

Release: MODERATOR: Greetings to everyone from the U.S. Department of State’s Media Hub of the Americas in Miami, Florida. I would like to welcome our participants who have dialed in from the United States and across the region. This is an on-the-record press briefing with NSC Senior Director for Transborder Katie Tobin.


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U.S.-EU Consultations Reinforce Strong Commitment to Human Rights

Release: Today in Brussels, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erin Barclay and EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore co-chaired the 2023 U.S.-EU Human Rights Consultations.  The United States and EU reaffirmed their strong mutual commitment to the transatlantic partnership and underscored its centrality to defending human rights, democracy, and the rule of law worldwide.


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Ambassador Hussain’s Travel to Israel and the West Bank

Release: U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain traveled to Israel and the West Bank on April 13-18 to meet with government and civil society leaders as well as representatives of faith communities during the convergence of Ramadan, Passover, and Easter.


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Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Barclay’s Travel to Belgium

Release: Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erin Barclay will travel to Belgium on April 23-26, where she will lead the U.S. delegation to the 2023 U.S.-EU Human Rights Consultations. The European Union delegation will be led by EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore. While in Brussels, Acting Assistant Secretary Barclay will also meet with other EU and Belgian officials, as well as civil society leaders.


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Secretary Antony J. Blinken Remarks to the Press

I’m going to be – I’ll be very quick. First of all, I really do want to thank the Secretary for taking time, and he’s got – coming from up north, but also from Vietnam and around, to take the time to come to the residence after we just returned from a visit with the prime minister and a meeting there, an update on the G7 agenda and also about what’s going on with the world.


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Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Barclay’s Travel to Belgium

Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erin Barclay will travel to Belgium on April 23-26, where she will lead the U.S. delegation to the 2023 U.S.-EU Human Rights Consultations.


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Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Lu’s Travel to the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan

Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu will travel to the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan on April 22-27.



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Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Press Availability

Good afternoon, everyone. So I have been long been looking forward to returning to Vietnam and making my first visit here as Secretary of State. I was here as deputy secretary in 2015 and 2016,


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On the Sentencing of Human Rights Defenders Xu and Ding

The United States condemns the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) unjust detention and sentencing of human rights defenders Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi.


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Under Secretary Zeya’s Remarks at an Interfaith Iftar in Bratislava Slovakia

Dobrý večer. Ambassador Rana, Chair Hasna, Deputy Speaker Grendell, Mayor Vallo, excellencies, and dear guests, thank you for inviting me to this interfaith Iftar.


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Senior Official for Global Women’s Issues Fotovat Travels to the United Kingdom

Senior Official to the Secretary of State in the Office of Global Women’s Issues Katrina Fotovat will visit Belfast from April 16–19.


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Assistant Secretary Noyes Travels to Chile and Costa Rica

Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Julieta Valls Noyes will travel to Chile on April 24 – 25 and Costa Rica on April 26 – 27.


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Assistant Secretary Noyes Travels to Arizona

Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Julieta Valls Noyes will travel to Arizona April 19-20.



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Feed the Future Tanzania SERA BORA

SERA BORA (Better Policy in English) activity works to accelerate Tanzania’s adoption of more effective policies and programs in order to drive growth of the agricultural sector, improve household food security and nutrition, and reduce poverty.


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Jifunze Uelewe ("Learn and Understand")

Jifunze Uelewe ("Learn and Understand") is a four-year activity which aims to sustain improvement of literacy and numeracy for all learners in pre-primary and primary education.