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Among the many international organizations supporting relief efforts in Haiti, is the International Organization for Migration (IOM).  My dear friend, Louis P. Hoffmann, is the Operations Coordinator for this mission for the IOM (pictured at far right below). The above video depicts one of the IOM’s many supply distribution efforts. More information on IOM’s work in Haiti can be found …

Preview to Annual Meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

Luis CdeBaca
Director, Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

Washington, DC

February 3, 2010

MR. TONER: Good afternoon. Today, Secretary Clinton will chair the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. She’ll be joined by fellow cabinet members as well as other …

Rachel Pugh of the Georgetown University Office of Communications writes:
The Georgetown basketball team may have won against Duke on Jan. 30 in front of a capacity crowd that included President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, but students from both schools have put aside rivalry to become partners for a common cause — Darfur refugees.
Through the Darfur Dream Team’s …

Reuters reports:
The Catholic Church warned the government on Monday against banning full-face Muslim veils, saying France must respect the rights of its Muslims if it wanted Muslim countries to do the same for their Christian minorities. A parliamentary commission has urged the National Assembly to pass a resolution condemning full veils and then ban them. “If we want Christian minorities …

As his website reports: “Ngugi wa Thiong’o, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature and Director of the International …

The World Economic Forum has just released its report, Faith and the Global Agenda: Values for the
Post-Crisis Economy. This report was produced in collaboration with Georgetown University, especially President John J. DeGioia and Professor Thomas Banchoff, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Andy Pino in the Georgetown Office of Communication explains:
Only one-quarter of people in a worldwide survey …

Briefing on Internet Freedom and 21st Century Statecraft

Michael H. Posner
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Alec Ross
Senior Advisor for Innovation

Washington, DC

January 22, 2010

MR. TONER: Good afternoon, and welcome to the State Department. We’re very pleased this afternoon to have with us Senior Advisor for Innovation Alec Ross, along with Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner. They’re …

Secretary Clinton: January 2010 » Remarks on Internet Freedom

Remarks on Internet Freedom

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

The Newseum

Washington, DC

January 21, 2010

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Alberto, for not only that kind introduction but your and your colleagues’ leadership of this important institution. It’s a pleasure to be here at the Newseum. The Newseum is a monument to some of our …