April 2012
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National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and Staying...
About the Author: Stacie Hankins serves as a Public Affairs Officer in the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the Department of State.
This week marks the 31st annual National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW). This week-long campaign sponsored by the Department of Justice’s Office of Victims of Crime originated as an opportunity to remember the rights of victims of crime and to...
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On the Attack on South Sudan by Sudan
Press Statement Victoria Nuland Department Spokesperson Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC April 23, 2012
The United States strongly condemns Sudan’s military incursion into South Sudan yesterday and calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of all Sudanese armed militia from South Sudan. Sudan must immediately halt the aerial and artillery bombardment in...
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Secretary Clinton To Visit the Maxwell School of...
Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC April 20, 2012
On April 23rd, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Secretary Clinton will meet with students and engage in a policy conversation entitled “America and the World” with Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg. Dean Steinberg served as Secretary Clinton’s Deputy...
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Explanation of Vote After the Adoption of UN...
Susan E. Rice U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations U.S. Mission to the United Nations Washington, DC April 21, 2012
AS DELIVERED
The United States has voted in favor of resolution 2043 authorizing the establishment of a UN supervision mission in Syria, but we are sober about the risks, all the more so given the Assad regime’s long record of broken promises, deceit and...
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Young People and the UN Security Council
About the Author: Kurtis Cooper serves as the Deputy Spokesperson at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
We are about two thirds of the way through the United States’ April Presidency of the UN Security Council. It has been quite a month. Syria, North Korea, Sudan and South Sudan, Mali, Guinea-Bissau — the Council has been working furiously on a broad range of issues spanning...
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WatchAmbassador Susan E. Rice participates in a LiveAtState event for youth journalists to discuss the work of the United Nations Security Council, New York, NY, April 19, 2012.
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Earth Observations Help Protect Our Planet
About the Author: Susan Harris serves in the Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES).
When a massive earthquake hit Japan in March 2011, an informal global network of government officials and NGOs delivered real-time satellite images showing the exact extent of the earthquake and tsunami damage. Japan’s emergency responders used this information to find...
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Embassies and Consulates Are Going Green
About the Author: Katie G. Kirkpatrick is a program analyst in the Under Secretary of Management’s Office of Policy, Rightsizing, and Innovation. She also serves as the events and outreach coordinator for the State Department’s Greening Council Working Group, which helped organize the exhibition.
The State Department’s Earth Day event, an exhibition titled “American...
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Supporting English-Language Learning and...
About the Author: Ann Stock serves as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Olá from Washington, D.C.! We’re home again after a busy and exciting trip to Brasilia and São Paulo. Tuesday was the first-annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership, whose member countries contain a quarter of the world’s population. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
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U.S. Humanitarian Aid Reaching Syria and...
The United States is pursuing every avenue to get humanitarian relief to those affected by the violence in Syria and is engaged in focused diplomatic efforts to secure full and unfettered access for humanitarian organizations to reach those in need. The United States is providing an additional $8 million in humanitarian assistance to support the people of Syria, bringing the total amount of U.S....
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Young People Mobilize for Global Youth Service Day
About the Author: Ronan Farrow serves as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Global Youth Issues and Director of the State Department’s Office of Global Youth Issues.
This weekend marks the 24th annual Global Youth Service Day. In 100 countries, across six continents, young people between the ages of 5 and 25 will participate in their communities, leading grassroots projects in...
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Photo of the Week: Advancing the Era of Open
About the Author: Hannah Johnson serves as DipNote’s Assistant Editor.
This week’s “Photo of the Week” comes to us from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent trip to Brasilia, Brazil. A staff member captured a photo of Secretary Clinton as she prepared to address the staff and families of the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia on April 16, 2012. While in...
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Ambassador Princeton Lyman, U.S. Special Envoy for...
Special Briefing
Ambassador Princeton Lyman, U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan
via Teleconference
Washington, DC
April 19, 2012
MR. TONER: Thank you very much, and thanks to everyone for joining us on relatively short notice. We’re very fortunate to have Ambassador Princeton Lyman, who is the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan joining us from Khartoum, where he is...
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Recognizing a Bahamian Exchange Alumna for...
About the Author: Erica Thibault serves as Public Affairs Officer at U.S. Embassy Nassau.
Each month, the U.S. Department of State honors an alumnus from one of our academic, cultural, sports, and professional exchanges in more than 160 countries. All of us at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau are so pleased that the Department of State selected Ms. Christine Campbell as April’s State Alumni...
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Travel Diary: Secretary Clinton Attends NATO...
More: Trip Page | Interactive Travel Map U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta joined their defense and foreign minister colleagues for a joint ministerial meeting of NATO in Brussels, Belgium on April 18, 2012. Following their meeting, Secretary Clinton said: “The main focus of our conversations today was Afghanistan, which I will focus...
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