From CNN: Human trafficking is flourishing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Iran, with little effort by the countries’ governments to combat it, the U.S. State Department said Monday. The department’s 2011 Trafficking in Persons…
From Time.com: “As Hillary Clinton pays her first visit to Pakistan as Secretary of State, an unfolding hostage crisis will test the Obama Administration’s rhetoric on human rights in the region. Officials at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad say at…
On September 25, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave the opening remarks at a “Combating Violence Against Girls” event. She called women and girls’ issues “…truly at the core of what we are attempting to do under the…
From VOA News: “Girls’ education is one of the most powerful tools for development that exists. Equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to lift their families and communities out of poverty and drive economic growth for their…
From the Washington Times: ”Beyond climate change, nuclear proliferation and other hot topics of this month’s annual U.N. gathering of world leaders, the international body will address another threat to humanity: the epidemic of rape in conflict-afflicted areas, especially the Democratic…
From the Huffington Post: “Secretary Clinton’s trip [to the Democratic Republic of Congo next week] will focus on “gender-based violence” in the war-torn eastern Congo. This term doesn’t convey the appalling reality of what is the cynical and cruel use…
From AllAfrica.com: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is putting a spotlight on food security and partnerships as she makes her first official visit to sub-Saharan Africa, a region that the international nongovernmental organization (NGO) World Vision says is “riddled…
This morning Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Luis deBaca, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, held a press conference releasing the Ninth Annual Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report. Clinton called trafficking “an…
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