2016

12/22/16 Russia Lists 150th NGO Under So-Called "Foreign Agent Law";  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/16/16 DRC: Call for Calm and Respect for Human Rights;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/16/16 Sudan: Closing Political Space and Media Crackdown;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/14/16 Under Secretary Sewall Travels to Switzerland and the United Kingdom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/12/16 Assistant Secretary Malinowski Travels to Ethiopia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/09/16 Acting Assistant Secretary Aponte and Special Envoy Berry Participate in an OAS LGBTI Core Group Event; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/09/16 Ambassador David Saperstein's Travel to India and Bangladesh; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/09/16 Ambassador Samantha Power To Launch #FreeToBeHome Political Prisoners Campaign; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/09/16 Ensuring a Peaceful Transition in The Gambia;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/09/16 Peaceful Election and Transition in Ghana;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/09/16 Prison Sentences for Azerbaijani Activists;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/08/16 Nigeria: White Paper on Zaria Clashes;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/07/16 Assistant Secretary Malinowski Travels to France; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/05/16 Increased Violence and Atrocities in Equatoria, South Sudan;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/01/16 Coordinator for Cyber Issues Christopher Painter Travel to New York for UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Special Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/29/16 Secretary Kerry Calls With President Mahama and Nana Akufo Addo; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/28/16 Cameroon: Call for Restraint, Concerns Over Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
11/22/16 Azerbaijani Supreme Court Decision on REAL Chairman Mammadov's Appeal;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
11/21/16 Toward a Return to Constitutional Rule in Haiti;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
11/21/16 United States Supports Continued Efforts Toward a More Inclusive Agreement in the DRC;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
11/17/16 Nigerian Deaths in Kano Clashes;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
11/15/16 Professional Fellows Program Empowering Young Leaders Globally; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/15/16 Seventh Anniversary of the Death of Sergey Magnitskiy;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
11/10/16 Ambassador David Saperstein's College Tour; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/10/16 Ambassador Robert King Travel to Seoul; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/09/16 Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken Travel to California; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/07/16 Nicaraguan Elections;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
11/04/16 Special Representative for International Labor Affairs Sarah Fox Travels to Geneva, Switzerland for the ILO Governing Body and UN Business and Human Rights Forum; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/01/16 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travels to the Netherlands; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/31/16 Lebanon's Presidential Election;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/27/16 International Religious Freedom Day, October 27, 2016;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/27/16 Joint Statement on the U.S.-Mexico Bilateral High Level Dialogue on Human Rights; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/27/16 On the Government of Burundi's Banning of Human Rights NGOs; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/27/16 Special Advisor Heumann Travel to Finland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/26/16 Assistant Secretary Malinowski Travels to Mexico; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/26/16 In Recognition of Intersex Awareness Day;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/24/16 Combating Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Department of State's Leadership During the Obama Administration; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/23/16 Ambassador Saperstein Travel to Indonesia and Malaysia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/22/16 ICC Judgment in Bemba et al. Witness Tampering Case;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/21/16 Joint Communique of Member States of the OAS on Recent Events in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Washington, DC
10/21/16 U.S. Department of State Collaborates With Americas Society/Council of the Americas To Launch the Americas Quarterly 2016 Social Inclusion Index; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/20/16 Hungary Media Freedom;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
10/19/16 Statement on OAS Announcement Regarding Nicaragua Dialogue;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/18/16 The Sentencing of Siamak and Baquer Namazi;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
10/15/16 Assistant Secretary Malinowski and Coordinator Painter Travel to Costa Rica for the Freedom Online Coalition; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/14/16 Honduras Certification Pursuant to 2016 Budget Appropriations Act; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/14/16 Joint Statement on Australia-United States Dialogue in Support of the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/13/16 Assistant Secretary Malinowski and Acting Assistant Secretary Aponte Travel to Cuba; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/12/16 On Ethiopia's Declared State of Emergency;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/12/16 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/11/16 Sporting Chance Forum on Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/10/16 Special Envoy Perriello Travel to Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, U.K.; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/07/16 Pakistan Parliament Passes Legislation Against "Honor Killings";  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/07/16 Under Secretary Sewall Travels to Massachusetts; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/06/16 10th Anniversary of the Murder of Anna Politkovskaya;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/06/16 Cabo Verde's Presidential Elections;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
10/06/16 Donor Conference for the Syria Justice and Accountability Center and the Syria Survivors of Torture Initiative; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/04/16 Fact Sheet: Key Outcomes of U.S. Priorities at the UN Human Rights Council's 33rd Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/03/16 Special Envoy Berry Travels to Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/30/16 Russian Supreme Court's Illegitimate Decision To Ban the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
09/29/16 Anniversary of Guinea Stadium Massacre;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/29/16 Special Representative for International Labor Affairs Travels to Burma and Cambodia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/27/16 Secretary Kerry Presents Award at USA Olympic Committee Team Awards Ceremony; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/26/16 Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein Visits the Central African Republic; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/26/16 Bosnia and Herzegovina Illegal Referendum;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
09/26/16 OAS LGBTI Core Group Welcomes Belize's Supreme Court Decision on Consensual Private Sexual Acts Between Adults; Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Washington, DC
09/22/16 Announcement of Venezuelan Recall Referendum Timeline;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/22/16 U.S. Department of State Announces New Cultural Heritage Initiatives; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/21/16 Sixteen Governments Recommit Support to Embattled Civil Society Organizations; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/19/16 Alarm Over Protests and Harassment of the U.S. Special Envoy in the DRC;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/19/16 U.S. Delegation to the 2016 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/19/16 U.S. Statement on Russian Duma Elections;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/18/16 Egypt: Non-Governmental Organization Asset Freezes;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/16/16 Illegitimate Russian Duma Elections in Occupied Crimea;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/16/16 United States Urges Commitment to Protection of Political Rights and Non-violence in the DRC;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/14/16 President Obama Signs Executive Order Ending Côte d'Ivoire Sanctions;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
09/12/16 Parliamentary Elections in Belarus;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/12/16 Special Advisor for International Disability Rights Judith Heumann To Travel to the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/10/16 Concerns Regarding Intimidation of Civil Society Members in South Sudan;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/10/16 The United States Welcomes the Release of Natig Jafarli;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/06/16 Assistant Secretary Malinowski Travel to Algeria; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/05/16 Special Representative for International Labor Affairs Travel to Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/02/16 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travels to Finland, Estonia, France, and Kazakhstan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/01/16 Concern Over Post-Election Constraints on Media Freedom in Zambia;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
08/31/16 Child Soldiers - South Sudan;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
08/31/16 Concern Regarding the Election in Gabon;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
08/30/16 Meeting of the U.S.-Honduras Bilateral Human Rights Working Group; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/28/16 Venezuelan Government Transfer of Daniel Ceballos;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
08/22/16 United States Concerned by the Death of Gambian Opposition Member Ibrima Solo Krummah;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
08/20/16 United States Concerned About Torture and Protection of Fundamental Freedoms in Mauritania;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
08/18/16 Designation Under Russia's "Undesirables" Law of the International Republican Institute and the Media Development Investment Fund;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
08/16/16 United States Troubled by Developments in Azerbaijan;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
08/12/16 Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein Visits Mexico; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/12/16 Under Secretary Sewall To Travel to Kazakhstan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/10/16 Release of the 2015 International Religious Freedom Report; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/09/16 Deputy Secretary Blinken To Release Report on International Religious Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/09/16 Maldives: Defamation Bill;  Director Elizabeth Trudeau, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
08/08/16 Argentina Declassification Project; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/08/16 Sentencing of Lawyers and Rights Activists in China;  Director Elizabeth Trudeau, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
08/02/16 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travels to Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/01/16 Concerns Regarding Nicaraguan Democracy and Elections;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
07/29/16 U.S. Department of State Launches Paralympians #WithoutLimits Social Media Campaign; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/27/16 Under Secretary Sewall Travels to Guatemala; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/26/16 Washington Conference on Threats to Religious and Ethnic Minorities under ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/22/16 United States Condemns Harsh Sentences and Calls for Unconditional Release of Prisoners;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
07/21/16 Haiti Special Coordinator Merten Travel to Haiti; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/20/16 Statement on the Death of Pavel Sheremet;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
07/19/16 U.S. Welcomes Formation of Equal Rights Coalition;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
07/16/16 Marking the 7th Anniversary of the Murder of Nataliya Estemirova;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
07/15/16 United States Concerned Over Escalating Press Intimidation in Lesotho;  Director Elizabeth Trudeau, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
07/13/16 Joint Statement on Supporting the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Through the Global Equality Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/11/16 Special Envoy Randy Berry Travels to Uruguay, Colombia, and Bolivia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/10/16 Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski's Travel to Sri Lanka and Cambodia July 12-20; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/09/16 Anniversary of Crackdown on Lawyers and Rights Defenders in China;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
07/08/16 Marking the 12th Anniversary of the Murder of American Journalist Paul Klebnikov;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
07/06/16 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 32nd Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/06/16 Release of the Report with Respect to Human Rights Abuses and Censorship in North Korea;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
06/25/16 Ambassador Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Travel to the Republic of Korea; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/24/16 State Department Welcomes Bloomberg L.P. to the Global Equality Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/22/16 Joint Statement of the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Commission Working Group on Democracy and Governance; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/20/16 Meeting of the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy (TPNRD); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/20/16 Secretary Kerry to Speak at State Department Pride Month Event; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/17/16 Special Advisor for International Disability Rights Heumann Travel to Ireland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/14/16 Closure of Opposition Political Society Al-Wefaq in Bahrain;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
06/14/16 Secretary Kerry's Meeting With Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/12/16 2016 World Day Against Child Labor: Child Labor and Supply Chains;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
06/10/16 Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Ambassador Robert King Travel to London and Brussels; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/10/16 UN Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
06/03/16 27th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
05/31/16 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travels to Canada, Italy, and Ukraine; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/31/16 The Professional Fellows Program: Empowering Emerging Leaders; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/30/16 Conviction of Hissene Habre for War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Torture;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
05/25/16 Return of Nadiya Savchenko to Ukraine;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
05/25/16 The United States Welcomes Release of Journalist Khadija Ismayilova;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
05/25/16 Under Secretary Sewall Travels to Hungary; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/20/16 Diminishing Political Space in the D.R.C.;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
05/20/16 U.S. Statement on Taiwan's Presidential Inauguration;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
05/20/16 United States Concern Over Delays in Somalia's Electoral Process;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
05/20/16 United States Concerned by Turkish Parliament's Vote on Constitutional Amendment;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
05/19/16 Meeting of the International Contact Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief (ICG); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/18/16 Deputy Secretary Blinken Delivers Keynote Address at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Atrocity Prevention Conference; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/16/16 Special Envoy Forman Travel to Morocco; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/16/16 State Department Sport for Community Exchange Program Promotes Disability Rights; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/14/16 Eight Year Imprisonment of Bahai Leaders in Iran;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
05/13/16 Special Envoy Randy Berry to Travel to New York City; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/06/16 Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski's Travel to Vietnam May 9-10; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/06/16 United States Concerned by Guilty Verdicts in Trial of Can Dundar and Erdem Gul;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
05/05/16 Final Results of the Presidential Elections in the Republic of Chad;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
05/02/16 Under Secretary Stengel To Travel to Seattle, Washington on World Press Freedom Day; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/29/16 On Ethiopia's Charges of Terrorism Against Political Leaders;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
04/29/16 Special Envoy Randy Berry Travels to Los Angeles; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/28/16 On Defending Democratic Space in the DRC;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
04/28/16 Special Coordinator Merten Travel to Haiti; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/27/16 U.S. Launches #USinRio Campaign in Advance of 2016 Olympics and Paralympics; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/25/16 IACHR Experts' Report on Ayotzinapa, Iguala;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
04/25/16 U.S. Department of State Launches Fifth Annual "Free the Press" Campaign; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/25/16 Voluntary Principles Annual Plenary Meeting Hosted in Colombia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/22/16 Secretary of State John Kerry To Deliver Address to James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/21/16 2016 U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/21/16 Russia's Decision To Suspend the Crimean Tatar Mejlis;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
04/19/16 Travel of Leyla and Arif Yunus;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
04/17/16 United States Condemns The Gambia's Response to Peaceful Protests;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
04/15/16 Special Representative for International Labor Affairs Sarah Fox Travels to Kuwait and Qatar April 17 - 20th, 2016; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/14/16 Secretary Kerry's Round Table Discussion with Leaders of the Cuban-American Community; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/13/16 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/13/16 Death of Mohammed Zahir al-Sherqat;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
04/12/16 Special Envoy Perriello Travel to France, Belgium, Switzerland, DRC, Burundi, and Tanzania; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/11/16 Djibouti Elections;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
04/08/16 Release Venezuelan Prisoners of Conscience;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
04/07/16 Results of the Presidential Elections in the Republic of Congo;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
04/06/16 2016 U.S.-China Coordination Meeting on Disability; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/06/16 U.S.-Colombia Action Plan for Racial and Ethnic Equality (CAPREE) to Meet in Cali, Colombia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/01/16 Ambassador Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Travel to Seoul; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/31/16 Concerns Regarding Sentencing of Angolan Activists;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/31/16 United States Concerned about Prison Conditions in Burundi;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/29/16 Haiti Provisional Electoral Council Re-Established;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/28/16 Assistant Secretary Malinowski Travels to Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/28/16 Release of Azerbaijani Human Rights Lawyer Intigam Aliyev;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/28/16 Secretary Kerry Honors 14 Women of Courage; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/25/16 Key Outcomes of U.S. Priorities at the UN Human Rights Council's 31st Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/25/16 Secretary Kerry To Honor International Women of Courage / Vice President Joe Biden To Deliver Remarks at Forum Marking Award Milestone; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/25/16 Under Secretary Sewall Travels to Thailand and Bangladesh; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/24/16 Ambassador Saperstein's Visit to Thailand and Vietnam; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/24/16 Announcement of Electoral Results in the Republic of Congo;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
03/24/16 Cabo Verde's Parliamentary Elections;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
03/24/16 Presidential Elections in Niger;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
03/23/16 Joint Statement in Support of the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Human Rights System; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/23/16 Transfer of Ladislas Ntaganzwa to Rwanda by the Democratic Republic of the Congo;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
03/22/16 ICC Convicts Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/22/16 Russian Court's Unjust Verdict Against Nadiya Savchenko;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/22/16 Special Envoy Berry Travels to San Francisco; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/21/16 Presidential Elections in the Republic of Congo;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/17/16 Release of Activists, Journalists, and Political Party Members in Azerbaijan;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/16/16 Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs Release of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981-1988, Volume III, Soviet Union, January 1981-January 1983; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/15/16 Second Anniversary of Russia's Attempted Annexation of Crimea;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/14/16 Ambassador Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Travel to Geneva; Washington, DC
03/11/16 On the Ugandan Government's Post-Election Conduct;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/10/16 Designation Under Russia's "Undesirables" Law of the National Democratic Institute;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/09/16 U.S.-Kazakhstan Strategic Partnership Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/04/16 U.S. Condemns Murder of Honduran Activist Berta Caceres;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/02/16 United States Calls for Freedom of Press and Internet in Malaysia;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/02/16 United States Calls on Burundi to Carry Out Stated Commitments;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
03/01/16 Deputy Secretary Blinken Presents 2015 Awards for Corporate Excellence; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/01/16 Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken Travel to Switzerland and France; Washington, DC
03/01/16 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons Randy Berry Travels to New York City; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/29/16 First Anniversary of the Murder of Boris Nemtsov;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
02/29/16 Human Rights Commitments and Pledges of the United States of America; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/25/16 Haiti Special Coordinator Kenneth Merten's Travel to Canada; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/22/16 Peaceful Elections in Niger;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
02/20/16 On the Results of Uganda's Presidential Elections;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
02/19/16 Secretary Kerry's Call with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/18/16 Exercise of the Right to Freedom of Expression in the Democratic Republic of Congo;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
02/17/16 On Bahrain;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
02/17/16 Venezuela: Inclusion of All Parties a Key to Solving Challenges;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
02/14/16 Five Year Anniversary of the House Arrests of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
02/12/16 Elections in the Central African Republic;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
02/12/16 On Next Week's Presidential Elections in Uganda;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
02/07/16 Agreement on a Way Forward for Governance and Elections in Haiti;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
02/01/16 Annual Report on the Implementation of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act;  Department Spokesman John Kirby; Washington, DC
01/31/16 Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski Travels to California February 1-4; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/29/16 U.S. Concerned About Electoral Situation in Zanzibar;  Department Spokesman John Kirby; Washington, DC
01/28/16 Special Envoy Randy Berry to Travel to Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, and Japan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/27/16 Secretary of State John Kerry to Deliver Remarks at The Washington Post's Grand Opening; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/24/16 Elections in Haiti;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
01/22/16 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Rob Berschinski Travels to Slovakia; Washington, DC
01/21/16 Acting Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Special Advisor for Religious Minorities in the Near East and South/Central Asia to Attend Conference in Morocco on Protection of Religious Minorities in Muslim Societies; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/21/16 Deputy Secretary Blinken's Trip to China; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/19/16 Readout of Deputy Secretary Blinken's Trip to Burma; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/19/16 Reports of Mass Graves and Serious Human Rights Abuses in Burundi;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
01/15/16 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of the LGBTI Persons Randy Berry To Travel to South Africa, Malawi, the Republic of Namibia, and Botswana; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/15/16 United States Concerned about Uganda's Electoral Environment;  Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
01/14/16 Assistant Secretary Malinowski Travel to Burma and Hawaii; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/14/16 The United States Calls for Meaningful Dialogue About Oromo Community Concerns;  Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
01/11/16 Special Envoy Berry Travel to Canada; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/08/16 First Round of Elections in the Central African Republic;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
01/07/16 Electoral Process in Haiti;  Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
01/02/16 Reaction to Rwandan President's Decision To Run for Third Term;  Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
01/02/16 Saudi Executions;  Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC