The United States joins the global community in recognizing the International Day of the Girl and reaffirms our commitment to advancing the rights and empowerment of girls and young women in all their diversity. Around the world, girls disproportionately experience the negative impacts of climate-related disasters; conflicts and humanitarian crises; and have lost years of […]

Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Cindy Dyer, is on travel to Mexico October 9-12 to meet with Mexican government counterparts and civil society stakeholders to learn more about existing policies and share best practices on topics such as victim identification, data collection and reporting, and investigation and prosecution efforts. She will also […]

From October 11-19, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Liz Allen will visit Nadi, Fiji; Port Vila, Vanuatu; Sydney, Australia, and Santiago, Chile. The Under Secretary’s visit will demonstrate the United States’ ongoing commitment to key partners in the Pacific and South America; support open and free media environments; counter foreign […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Hello, everyone.  We are heading, as you know, to Israel, and I’m going with a very simple and clear message on behalf of the President of the United States and on behalf of the American people, and that is that the United States has Israel’s back.  We have the back of the Israeli […]

Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins, will travel to New York October 12-13 for the United Nations General Assembly First Committee (UNFC) to discuss the current and future priorities in the realm of security and disarmament. The UNFC deals with global challenges and threats to peace that […]