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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.
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 ...
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.
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...
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.), ...
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.
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
News Release: The following is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel
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.
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.
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.
2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Hungary
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
Release: According to its constitution, Hungary is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. The unicameral National Assembly (parliament) exercises legislative authority. For the past three years, however, Hungary has been operating under consecutive states of emergency that allow the government to pass laws by ...
On the Occasion of Ramadan
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
News Release: I wish a peaceful Ramadan to all those observing the holy month.
DOS-WHA offers new grant application process starting March 23
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
Civil Society Dialogue in Brazil and Colombia in Support of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Race, Ethnicity, and Social Inclusion (RESI) Goals grant opened on March 23.
Risch, Menendez Introduce Legislation in Support of Ecuador
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced the Innovation and Development in Ecuador (IDEA) Act, legislation to make Ecuador eligible for designation as a beneficiary country under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act.
Determination under Section 110(b)(2)(D) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as Amended
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
Release: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 110(b)(2)(D) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(2)(D)), and Presidential Delegation of Waiver Authority to the Secretary dated Sept. 20, 2010, I hereby determine that a waiver of the application of clause...
Chairman McCaul Announces Hearing on Oversight, Transparency, and Accountability of Ukraine Assistance
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul announced the full committee will convene a hearing entitled “Oversight, Transparency, and Accountability of Ukraine Assistance" on Wednesday, March 29th.
DOS-DRL grant application closes on May 24
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
DRL Sri Lanka Transitional Justice grant opened on March 23.
2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Lithuania
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
Release: The Republic of Lithuania is a constitutional, multiparty, parliamentary democracy. Legislative authority resides in the Seimas (a unicameral parliament), and executive authority resides in the prime minister and the cabinet of ministers. Observers evaluated the presidential elections and European parliamentary elections in 2019 and the national parliamentary elections in 2020 as generally free and fair.
2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ireland
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2023
Release: Ireland is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a directly elected president, an executive branch headed by a prime minister, and a bicameral parliament. The country held free and fair parliamentary elections in 2020 and a presidential election in 2018.