2017
01/16/17 U.S. Department of State Co-Hosts High-Level Forum on Combating Anti-Muslim Discrimination; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/11/17 Human Rights Defenders Asset Freezes in Egypt;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
01/11/17 Release of the Report on Human Rights Abuses and Censorship in North Korea;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
01/09/17 Annual Report on the Implementation of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
01/04/17 The United States Urges Momentum in Somalia's Electoral Process;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
01/03/17 Haiti Provisional Electoral Council Publishes Final Presidential Election Results;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
01/02/17 The United States Applauds DRC Agreement;  Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC

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

2015
12/22/15 Trial of Pu Zhiqiang;  Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/18/15 U.S.-Belarus Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/16/15 Successful Conclusion of the Ten-year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society;  Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/16/15 Third Anniversary of Abduction of Sombath Somphone;  Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
12/13/15 Welcoming Women's Participation in the Saudi Municipal Election;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
12/10/15 Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein Travel to Rome and The Vatican; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/09/15 Release From Prison of Leyla Yunus;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
12/09/15 Two Years Since the Abduction of the "Douma 4";  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
12/04/15 Designation Under Russia's "Undesirables" Law of the U.S.-Russia Foundation;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
12/04/15 Egyptian Parliamentary Elections;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
11/30/15 Designation under Russia's "Undesirables" Law of the Open Society Foundations;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
11/30/15 U.S.-Brunei High Level Officials' Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/28/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski To Travel to United Kingdom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/27/15 Media Freedom in Turkey;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
11/26/15 Condemn Killing of Opposition Member in Venezuela;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
11/24/15 Cuban Citizens Sentenced for Peaceful Protest;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
11/20/15 Joint U.S.-Uruguay Statement on Supporting the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Through the Global Equality Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/20/15 Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20, 2015;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
11/16/15 Removal of Sam Rainsy from the Cambodian National Assembly;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
11/16/15 Under Secretary Sewall To Travel to the United Kingdom and Norway; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/14/15 Ambassador David Saperstein Travels to Israel, Jerusalem, the West Bank, Turkey and Egypt; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/13/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski to Travel to Uganda and Ethiopia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/13/15 Sixth Anniversary of Sergey Magnitskiy's Death;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
11/13/15 Special Advisor Knox Thames to Travel to Turkey and Lebanon; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/12/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski Travels to Tunisia for the U.S.-Tunisia Strategic Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/12/15 Release from Prison of Arif Yunus;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
11/09/15 Ambassador Robert King Travel to the Republic of Korea; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/07/15 Burundi: Killing of Welly Nzitonda;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
11/04/15 Maldives: State of Emergency;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
11/02/15 Assistant Secretary Crocker Travels to France and Switzerland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/30/15 Under Secretary of State Richard Stengel to Deliver a Speech at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on Global Press Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/27/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski Travels to Mexico for Open Government Partnership Global Summit; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/27/15 Secretary Kerry Addresses International Journalists in the United States for Tenth Anniversary of the Edward R. Murrow Exchange Program; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/26/15 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons, Randy Berry Travels to Europe and Israel; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/23/15 Special Advisor for International Disability Rights Judith Heumann to Travel to Kenya and Ethiopia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/21/15 Sentencing of Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association Members to Prison;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
10/21/15 United States - Mexico Bilateral Human Rights Dialogue Joint Statement; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/14/15 Taken Question: Comment on Bao Zhuoxuan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/14/15 The 2014 International Religious Freedom Report; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/14/15 The 7th U.S.-China Legal Experts Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/13/15 Secretary Kerry to Release Report on International Religious Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/08/15 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 30th Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/07/15 Under Secretary Sarah Sewall Joins UN Rollout of Global Standards for Treatment of Prisoners; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/06/15 Nine-Year Anniversary of the Murder of Anna Politkovskaya;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
10/01/15 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travels to Central America and Mexico; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/28/15 Under Secretary Sewall Meeting with Syrian Women Human Rights Activists; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/22/15 U.S. Concerned Over Conviction of Youth Activists in Democratic Republic of Congo;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
09/18/15 U.S. Delegation to the 2015 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/10/15 Ecuador: Restrictions on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Association;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
09/08/15 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travels to the United Kingdom, Belgium and Turkey; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/04/15 Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall To Travel to France and Switzerland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/03/15 First Meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Global Human Rights Working Group; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/01/15 Sentencing of Azerbaijani Investigative Journalist Khadija Ismayilova;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
08/31/15 Ambassador David Saperstein's Visit to China; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/31/15 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Anne Patterson and Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski Travel to Tunis; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/31/15 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power to Launch #FreeThe20 Women Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Concern Campaign; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/29/15 Egyptian Court Verdict on Al-Jazeera Journalists;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
08/25/15 Sentencing of Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
08/24/15 Ambassador Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Travel to China; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/24/15 Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal and Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski Travel to Sri Lanka; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/24/15 UN Security Council Holds Inaugural Meeting on LGBT Issues;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
08/23/15 Release of Prisoners in Belarus;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
08/14/15 Ambassador David Saperstein's Visit to Sudan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/13/15 Conviction of Human Rights Activists Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunus in Azerbaijan;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
08/12/15 19th U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/10/15 Syria: Mazen Darwish Released;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
08/07/15 Iran: Death Sentence of Mohammad Ali Taheri;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
08/07/15 U.S. Condemns Murder of Bangladeshi Writer/Blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/31/15 Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski Travels to Egypt and Vietnam; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/31/15 Taken Question: Readout of Secretary Kerry's Meetings With Mohamed Soltan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/29/15 The United States Assumes the Presidency of the Community of Democracies; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/28/15 Designation under Russia's "Undesirables" Law of the National Endowment for Democracy;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
07/28/15 Release of Pardoned Prisoners and Disappearance of Gambian Journalist;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
07/24/15 Charges Against Syrian Activists;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
07/23/15 Senior U.S. Delegation to the Community of Democracies Ministerial in El Salvador; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/21/15 Elections in Burundi Will Lack Credibility;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
07/17/15 Winners of the 2014 Human Rights Awards; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/16/15 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry Travel to Uganda; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/14/15 2014 Human Rights Defender Award Ceremony for Azimjon Askarov and Foro Penal; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/14/15 Celebrating Artists with Disabilities - Art in Embassies Accepts Quilt from former U.S. Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith and VSA Tennessee; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/14/15 Concern over Actions Taken Against Opposition Leaders in Bahrain;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
07/14/15 Sixth Anniversary of the Murder of Human Rights Activist Nataliya Estemirova;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
07/13/15 Access for All Global Virtual Comedy Club; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/13/15 Death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
07/12/15 U.S. Condemns Detention of Human Rights Defenders in China;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
07/09/15 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 29th Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/09/15 U.S. Condemns Forced Deportation of Ethnic Uighurs in Thailand to China;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
07/08/15 Marking the 11th Anniversary of the Murder of American Journalist Paul Klebnikov;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
06/29/15 Lifting Holds on Security Assistance to the Government of Bahrain;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
06/26/15 U.S. Places Electoral Assistance to Burundi on Hold;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
06/25/15 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/24/15 Secretary Kerry To Release Annual Human Rights Reports (Updated); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/23/15 Joint U.S.-Norway Statement on Supporting Civil Society and the Freedoms of Assembly and Association Through the Lifeline: Embattled Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Assistance Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/16/15 Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein's Travel to Brussels and London; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/16/15 Concern Over the Conviction of Shaikh Ali Salman in Bahrain;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
06/15/15 Ambassador Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Travel to Geneva and Brussels; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/15/15 Randy Berry, Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons, Travels to Europe; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/14/15 Travel of Sudanese President Bashir to South Africa;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
06/13/15 Human Rights Defender Emin Huseynov's Safe Departure From Azerbaijan;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
06/12/15 2015 World Day Against Child Labor: Education not Exploitation;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
06/10/15 Film Screening of Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/05/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski Travels to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/04/15 Under Secretary Sewall Travel to Norway, Belgium, France, and Switzerland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/03/15 Ambassador at Large Saperstein and Acting Special Envoy Suleman Travel to Saudi Arabia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/03/15 On the 26th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square;  Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
06/03/15 Pride at State: Deputy Secretary Higginbottom To Speak at State Department Pride Month Event; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/31/15 Randy Berry, Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons, Travels to Latin America and the Caribbean; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/29/15 Disappointment in Conviction of Rafael Marques;  Director Jeff Rathke, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
05/27/15 Ethiopia's May 24 Parliamentary and Regional Elections;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/23/15 Russia's "Undesirables" Law;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf; Washington, DC
05/23/15 Violence and Human Rights Violations in Mali;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf; Washington, DC
05/22/15 Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal Travel to China and Republic of Korea; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/21/15 Intent to Re-Establish the Advisory Committee on the Secretary of State's Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/19/15 Concerns About Burma's Health Care for Population Control Bill;  Director Jeff Rathke, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
05/19/15 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons Randy Berry Travels to Jamaica; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/18/15 71st Anniversary of the Deportation on Crimean Tatars;  Director Jeff Rathke, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
05/18/15 Belarus Human Rights and Democracy Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/13/15 Andijan Tenth Anniversary;  Director Jeff Rathke, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
05/06/15 One-Year Anniversary of Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang's Detention; Acting Deputy Department Spokesperson Jeff Rathke, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/05/15 2015 U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/05/15 Assistant Secretary Malinowski and Coordinator Painter Travel to Mongolia for World Press Freedom Day and Freedom Online Coalition Conference; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/01/15 Ambassador David Saperstein's Joint Visit to Burma to Promote Religious Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/01/15 Highlights of State Department and USAID Efforts to Support Press and Media Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/01/15 Travel of Assistant Secretary Douglas Frantz to Riga and Berlin; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/29/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski Travels to Burundi; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/27/15 Fulbright Foreign Students Explore Disability Rights in California; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/27/15 Readout of Ambassador Saperstein's Visit to Pakistan to Promote Religious Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/27/15 U.S. Department of State Launches "Free the Press" Campaign; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/25/15 U.S. Deeply Regrets Burundi's Disregard for the Arusha Agreement; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/24/15 Anniversary of the Arrest of Ethiopia's Zone 9 Bloggers and Three Journalists; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/24/15 Joint Statement on the Second Anniversary of the Rana Plaza Disaster in Bangladesh; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/24/15 Under Secretary Wendy R. Sherman To Deliver Remarks on the P5+1 Nuclear Negotiations With Iran; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/23/15 Conviction of Azerbaijani Human Rights Lawyer Intigam Aliyev; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/23/15 State Of Rights: Media Freedom and Press Access in China; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/21/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski Travels to Mexico; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/20/15 Joint U.S.-Denmark Statement on Supporting the Human Rights of LGBT Persons Through the Global Equality Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/16/15 Conviction of Azerbaijani Human Rights Activist Rasul Jafarov; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/16/15 Detention of Youth Activists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/16/15 POSTPONED: Secretary Kerry to Release Annual Human Rights Reports; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/15/15 Coordinator for Cyber Issues Christopher Painter Heads the U.S. Delegation to the Global Conference on Cyberspace in The Hague; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/14/15 Malaysia's Sedition Act Amendments; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/14/15 United States Concerned by Burkina Faso Electoral Code Changes; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/13/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/13/15 U.S.-China Coordination Meeting on Disability; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/02/15 Russian Shutdown of Crimean Tatar Media; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/31/15 Cuba: Planning Meeting for Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/27/15 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 28th Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/19/15 Welcoming the Release of Civil Society Activists in Azerbaijan;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/18/15 United States Assumes Chair of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/17/15 U.S. Delegation to the 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/16/15 Ambassador Robert King Travel to Geneva; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/09/15 The State Department Welcomes Hilton Worldwide to the Global Equality Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/06/15 Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Melia Visit to Budapest, Hungary; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/28/15 Readout of DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Feldstein Trip to Sudan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/26/15 Secretary Kerry's Reception for the Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/25/15 Continued Detention of Nadiya Savchenko;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
02/23/15 Department of State To Host China Human Rights Film Screening; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/23/15 Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
02/23/15 Special Representative for International Labor Affairs;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
02/20/15 Mongolian Leaders Visit United States to Advance New Disability Rights Legislation; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/20/15 Travel of Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/19/15 State Department Welcomes the Human Rights Campaign to Global Equality Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/17/15 Readout of Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski and Ambassador David Saperstein's Travel to Baghdad and Erbil, Iraq; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/14/15 Four Year Anniversary of the House Arrests of Iranian Green Movement Leaders;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
02/10/15 U.S. Department of State Sponsors Exchange Program for Parliamentarians: Leadership in the Digital Economy; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/09/15 Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski's Travel to Turkey and Engagement With Syrian Civil Society and Opposition; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/06/15 International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
02/06/15 Submission of U.S. Universal Periodic Review Report; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/02/15 Additional Visa Restrictions Against Human Rights Abusers, Individuals Responsible for Public Corruption, and Their Family Members in Venezuela;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/29/15 Zone 9 Bloggers Move to Trial on Amended ATP Charges in Ethiopia;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/28/15 Equatorial Guinea: Concerns Regarding Arrests and Continuing Detentions;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/27/15 Reported Release on Bail of Six Journalists in Eritrea;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/20/15 Assistant Secretary Roberta S. Jacobson to Travel to Cuba; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/20/15 U.S. Condemns Violence in Niger;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/16/15 Convictions in Mauritania of Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, Brahim Bilal Ramdhane and Djiby Sow;  Director Jeff Rathke, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
01/15/15 Ambassador Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Travel to Geneva and Brussels; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/15/15 Sentence of Saudi Human Rights Lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/12/15 Assistant Secretary of State Malinowski's Travel to Burma; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/08/15 Statement on the Sentence of Saudi Human Rights Activist Raif Badawi;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/07/15 U.S. Welcomes Robust UN Electoral Observation Mission to Burundi;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC

2014
12/31/14 Detention of Shaikh Salman in Bahrain;  Director Jeff Rathke, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
12/30/14 Detentions of Activists in Cuba;  Director Jeff Rathke, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
12/29/14 Annual Report on the Implementation of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act;  Director Jeff Rathke, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
12/24/14 Fifth Anniversary of Liu Xiaobo's Conviction;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
12/19/14 Condemning Cyber-Attack by North Korea;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
12/18/14 Human Rights in Belarus on the Anniversary of the Crackdown of December 19, 2010;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/15/14 Arson Attack on Human Rights Group in Chechnya;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/14/14 On Arrests of Journalists in Turkey;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/10/14 Film Screening of Leaving Fear Behind by Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen in Commemoration of 2014 Human Rights Day; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/10/14 One Year Since Abduction of "Douma 4";  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/09/14 Assistant Secretary Malinowski and Special Envoy King Lead Discussion with North Korean Defectors on Human Rights Day; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/08/14 Joint Statement on the Establishment of a Compensation Fund for Holocaust Victims Deported from France; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/05/14 U.S.-France Agreement on Compensation for Certain Victims of Holocaust-Related Deportation from France Who Are Not Covered by French Programs; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/05/14 United States and France to Sign Agreement on Compensation for Certain Victims of Holocaust-Related Deportation from France Who Are Not Covered by French Programs; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/03/14 Venezuela: Maria Corina Machado Faces Conspiracy Charges;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/02/14 Assistant Secretaries Patterson and Malinowski's Regional Travels, December 1-4; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/24/14 U.S. Concerned by Passage of Discriminatory Law, Arrests of LGBT Individuals;  Director Jeff Rathke, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
11/21/14 Key Outcomes from the Annual Conference to Advance the Human Rights of and Promote Inclusive Development for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Persons; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/20/14 Joint Government and Multilateral Agency Communique From Conference to Advance the Human Rights of and Promote Inclusive Development for LGBTI Persons; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/18/14 U.S. Congratulates Burkina Faso for Progress Toward Democratic Transition;  Director Jeff Rathke, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
11/14/14 Fifth Anniversary of Sergey Magnitskiy's Death;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
11/11/14 State Department and USAID To Host Global Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Human Rights and Inclusive Development; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/11/14 Travel of Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/10/14  Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Request for Proposals: Combatting Anti-Semitism in Europe
11/10/14 Support for Civil Society's Charter for Transitional Government in Burkina Faso;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
11/07/14 Re-Election of Judge Donoghue to the International Court of Justice; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/07/14 Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall to Travel to Nepal and India; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/30/14 U.S. Deeply Concerned by Sentence of Ethiopian Journalist;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/30/14 Welcoming President Compaore's Commitment to a Democratic Transition;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/27/14 International Journalists Arrive on Edward R. Murrow Exchange Program to Explore U.S. Democracy and Media Best Practices; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/26/14 Congratulations to Dr. Denis Mukwege Upon Receiving the 2014 Sakharov Prize;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/22/14 Welcoming the Release of Civil Society Activists in Azerbaijan;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/21/14 Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski's Travel to Vietnam and the Republic of Korea; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/20/14 United States Deeply Concerned by D.R.C.'s Expulsion of MONUSCO Human Rights Officer;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/15/14 Detention of Human Rights Defender Leyla Yunus;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/06/14 Eight-Year Anniversary of the Murder of Anna Politkovskaya;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/03/14 Legislation Under Consideration by the Government of South Sudan;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
09/30/14 Reports of Civil Society Detentions in Sudan;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
09/28/14 Fifth Anniversary of Massacre at Pro-Democracy Rally in Guinea;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
09/26/14 Certification With Respect to Human Rights Related Issues In Colombia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/26/14 ISIL's Murder of Iraqi Human Rights Lawyer Samira Salih al-Nuaimi;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/26/14 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 27th Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/25/14 Emerging Global Leaders Initiative-Atlas Corps Fellowship Joins President Obama's Stand with Civil Society Agenda; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/25/14 G-7 Foreign Ministers' Statement on Joint Action to Fight the Terrorist Organisation ISIL/DAESH; Office of the Spokesperson; New York City, NY
09/24/14 Underscoring ISIL and Assad Regime Abuses, Secretary Kerry Meets With Syrian Women Human Rights Activists; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/19/14 U.S. Delegation to the 2014 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/16/14 15th Anniversary of Unsolved Disappearances in Belarus;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/15/14 Civil Society Delegation to Examine Growing Restrictions on the Work of Civil Society Worldwide; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/15/14 Counselor Thomas A. Shannon's Travel to Mogadishu, Somalia, on September 14; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/12/14 In Support of Georgia's Multiparty Democracy and Euro-Atlantic Future;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/11/14 Counselor to the Department Thomas A. Shannon Travel to Kenya and Uganda; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/11/14 Due Process in Venezuela;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/10/14 On the Arrest for Sedition in Botswana of Outsa Mokone;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/02/14 State Department Hosts Roundtable on Anti-Semitism With American and European Jewish Leaders; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/02/14 The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Launches the "State of Rights" Series; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/02/14 The State Department Welcomes the Royal Bank of Canada to the Global Equality Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/02/14 U.S. Embassy in Budapest Supports 5th European Transgender Council Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/27/14 Beating of Azerbaijani Journalist and Human Rights Activist;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
08/11/14 U.S. Delegation to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/09/14 Threatening Remarks by Swazi Prime Minister Cause for Concern;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/01/14 Special Advisor for International Disability Rights Judith Heumann to Travel to Mexico; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/31/14 Criminal Charges Against Institute for Peace and Democracy Director Leyla Yunus in Azerbaijan;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/30/14 Visa Restrictions Against Human Rights Abusers in Venezuela;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/28/14 2013 International Religious Freedom Report; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/26/14 Secretary Kerry To Release Report on International Religious Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/25/14 U.S. Dismayed by Harsh Sentence for Swazi Human Rights Lawyer and Journalist;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/21/14 Travel of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Ira Forman to Hungary, Latvia, and Lithuania; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/21/14 U.S. Concerned by Convictions of Swazi Human Rights Lawyer and Journalist;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/18/14 U.S. Condemns Religious Persecution by ISIL;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
07/18/14 Zone 9 Bloggers Charged by Ethiopian Court for Terrorism;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
07/15/14 Fifth Anniversary of Human Rights Activist Nataliya Estemirova's Murder;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
07/14/14 Detentions of Dozens of Activists in Cuba;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
07/09/14 Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Murder of American Journalist Paul Klebnikov;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
07/08/14 Assistant Secretary Malinowski's Schedule in Bahrain; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/08/14 Concerns Regarding Sri Lankan NGO Freedom of Expression;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
07/07/14 Sentencing of Saudi Human Rights Lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
07/07/14 Statement on the Decision by the Government of Bahrain To Find Assistant Secretary Malinowski Persona Non Grata and To Expel Him From Bahrain;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
06/30/14 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 26th Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/25/14 Reality Check: An Examination of Anti-Semitism in 2014; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/21/14 Welcoming the Release of Ales Byalyatski;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
06/20/14 Assistant Secretary of State Malinowski's Travel to Burma June 22-28; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/17/14 Pride at State: Secretary Kerry To Speak at State Department Pride Month Event; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/16/14 Taken Question: Burma Parliamentary Committee Votes Not to Amend 59F; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/13/14 Ambassador Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Travel to Brussels and Geneva; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/13/14 Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/12/14 Detentions of Activists in Cuba;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/11/14 Taken Question: Proposed Legislation on Marriage Restrictions in Burma; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/10/14 Key Outcomes: 44th Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly, June 3-5, 2014, Asunción, Paraguay; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/10/14 Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall To Travel to United Kingdom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/09/14 Karachi Airport Attack and Balochistan Shia Attack;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/08/14 Secretary of State John Kerry Travel to London;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
06/06/14 Detention of Human Rights Lawyer and Journalist in Swaziland;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/05/14 U.S. Department of State Honors Lizeth Martinez of Mexico as the International Exchange Alumni Member of the Month; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/04/14 Ongoing Detentions and Arrests in Rwanda;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/03/14 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Event; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/02/14 Dr. Tomicah Tillemann, Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies, Travels to Estonia and Poland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/02/14 Winners of the 2013 Human Rights Awards; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/30/14 Reports of Termination of Chinese Blogger; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/30/14 Taken Question: Detention of A Nikkei Employee by Chinese Authorities; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/29/14 Honduras Bilateral Human Rights Working Group Meets in Tegucigalpa; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/20/14 Additional Sanctions Under the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
05/16/14 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Human Rights Issues; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
05/15/14 Joint Statement on the Occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/15/14 U.S. Deeply Disturbed by Court Ruling in Sudan Apostasy Case;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/13/14 Secretary Kerry Meets with Afghan Women Journalists; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/13/14 Travel of Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism to Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Istanbul, Ankara, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/09/14 U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/02/14 Highlights of State Department and USAID Efforts to Support Press and Media Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/02/14 Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall To Travel to Indonesia, Burma, and Nigeria; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/29/14 Assistant Secretary Malinowski Travels to Vilnius, Lithuania; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/28/14 Egyptian Court Sentencing Recommendations;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
04/28/14 Travel of Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King to Geneva and London; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/25/14 Madagascar's New Government;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
04/25/14 Secretary Kerry To Deliver Remarks to the Freedom Online Coalition; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/25/14 U.S. Department of State Launches "Free the Press" Campaign; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/25/14 U.S. Government Delegation To the Freedom Online Coalition Conference in Tallinn, Estonia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/23/14 Joint Statement on the Anniversary of Rana Plaza Building Collapse in Bangladesh; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/19/14 United States Condemns Attacks on Journalists in Pakistan;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/18/14 Gender-Based Violence Emergency Response and Protection Initiative: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Partnership to Assist Individuals in Crisis; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/16/14 Special Advisor for International Disability Rights Judith Heumann to Travel to China and Vietnam; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/16/14 U.S. Participation in the Arria Formula Meeting of the UN Security Council on Human Rights in North Korea; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/11/14 Xu Zhiyong Appeal Rejected by Chinese Appellate Court;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
04/07/14 Secretary Kerry To Chair Human Trafficking Task Force Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/07/14 Travel of Assistant Secretary Frantz to Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, and Turkey; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/04/14 Raid on the Makerere University Walter Reed Project by Ugandan Authorities;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/03/14 The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative Welcomes Ghana; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/02/14 Travel of Assistant Secretary Roberta S. Jacobson to Mexico; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/01/14 Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall to Travel to Algeria and Morocco; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/31/14 Travel of Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/28/14 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 25th Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/28/14 UN Human Rights Council Vote on North Korea;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/26/14 Sports Envoys Visit Turkmenistan for Blind Judo Program; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/21/14 Continued Intimidation of Sri Lankan Civil Society;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/21/14 Turkish Government's Blocking of Social Media Sites;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/20/14 Launch of Gender-Based Violence Emergency Response and Protection Initiative: New DRL Partnership to Assist Individuals in Crisis; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/17/14 Launch of Gender-Based Violence Emergency Response and Protection Initiative; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/17/14 UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Discusses DPRK Human Rights; Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Washington, DC
03/15/14 Death of Chinese Activist Cao Shunli;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/14/14 Travel of Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King to Geneva; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/12/14 Joint Statement Recognizing Moldova's Completion of Their Democracy Partnership Challenge Task Force during the Community of Democracies 12th Governing Council Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/11/14 Senior Advisor Tomicah Tillemann Travels to Geneva, Switzerland for the Community of Democracies' Governing Council Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/10/14 U.S. Concerns on Dismissal of Maldivian Elections Commissioners;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/07/14 Conviction of Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/07/14 Verdict in the Germain Katanga Trial at the International Criminal Court;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/03/14 Christians Under Threat in Syria;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/03/14 Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall To Travel to Geneva, Switzerland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/28/14 Readout of Secretary Kerry's Call with Ugandan President Museveni; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/28/14 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Forman To Visit the United Kingdom and the Netherlands; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/27/14 Department of State To Host Facebook Q&A on Human Rights; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/25/14 Concern over Bolotnaya Verdicts and Detentions;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
02/25/14 Secretary Kerry To Release Annual Human Rights Reports; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/24/14 Enactment of Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
02/24/14 The State Department's Global Equality Fund Named 2014 Nonprofit Partner for Out Leadership; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/21/14 Concern over the Bolotnaya Verdicts;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/21/14 Secretary Kerry Designates Under Secretary Sarah Sewall as Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/19/14 Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in The Gambia;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
02/18/14 Vietnamese Government's Decision To Uphold Le Quoc Quan Conviction;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
02/17/14 Release of the Final Report of the UN Commission of Inquiry into the Human Rights Situation in the D.P.R.K.;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/14/14 Three Year Anniversary of the House Arrests of Iranian Opposition Leaders;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/13/14 Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya's Travel to Jakarta, Indonesia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/10/14 Detentions of Activists in Cuba;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/08/14 Statement on the Nomination of Joan E. Donoghue to the International Court of Justice;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
02/07/14 U.S. Department of State Welcomes Mongolian Sitting Volleyball Visitors on Disability Sports and Women's Empowerment; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/31/14 "We Are All Athletes" Video: Showcasing Diversity and Inclusiveness; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/28/14 Assistant Secretary of State Biswal Travel to Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Switzerland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/27/14 Croatia Joins Global Equality Fund as a Partner;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/27/14 Special Screening of "There Was Once"; Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/25/14 Conviction of Xu Zhiyong;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/18/14 Final Results of Madagascar's Presidential Election;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/16/14 Disappearance of Ilham Tohti;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/16/14 Killing of Joseph Sanchez, an LGBT Teenager in Belize;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/16/14 Passage of Undemocratic Legislation in Ukrainian Parliament;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
01/16/14 Workshop on Government Procurement and Human Rights; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC

2013
12/31/13 Condolences on Death of Mike O'Connor, Mexico Representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/26/13 Targeted Violence and Intimidation Towards Activists, Journalists in Ukraine;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/24/13 U.S. Concern With Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Legislation;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/23/13 Jail Sentences Handed Down for Peaceful Demonstrators in Egypt;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/22/13 Continued Concerns on Bangladesh Elections;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/20/13 Acting Assistant Secretary Uzra Zeya's Travel to Egypt; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/19/13 Human Rights in Belarus on the Anniversary of the December 19, 2010 Crackdown;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/13/13 DRL Acting Assistant Secretary Uzra Zeya's Travel to the 2013 BMENA Forum for the Future; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/12/13 Crackdown on Cuban Civil Society's Human Rights Day Events;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/11/13 Outcomes of the 2013 OSCE Ministerial; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/10/13 The State Department Welcomes New Private Sector Support for the Global Equality Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/09/13 State Department Senior Advisor for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies Dr. Tomicah Tillemann Travels to Warsaw, Poland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/06/13 Unearthing a History of the Holocaust in Hungary: Join Us on Human Rights Day (December 10) for a Film and Discussion; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/03/13 Special Advisor Heumann and Senior Advisor Kwan To Participate in a Google+ Hangout on "Going For Gold: Advancing International Disability Rights"; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/02/13 Alumni of U.S. Cultural and Development Programs Support Persons with Disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/22/13 State Department Officials Meet With International Press Freedom Award Winners; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/15/13 Fourth Anniversary of Magnitskiy's Death;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
11/14/13 2012 Human Rights Defenders Award Ceremony for Hanadi Zahlout; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/07/13 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism To Travel to Ukraine; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/06/13 Former Congressman David Dreier to Attend November 7-8 Bali Democracy Forum (BDF); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/05/13 U.S.-China Legal Experts Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/28/13 Georgian Presidential Election;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/28/13 International Journalists Explore U.S. Democracy and Best Media Practices on Edward R. Murrow Program Exchange; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/28/13 U.S. Department of State's EMPOWER Conference on International Disability Inclusion; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/27/13 International Religious Freedom Day;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
10/25/13 Anniversary of Arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky;  Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/23/13 Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Uzra Zeya's Travel to Geneva; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/22/13 Acting Assistant Secretary Zeya To Deliver Remarks at LGBT Conference; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/21/13 U.S. Department of State Honors Nora Al-Othman of Kuwait as International Exchange Alumni Member of the Month; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/21/13 U.S. Participation at the 2013 Internet Governance Forum; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/21/13 U.S.-Ukraine Rule of Law Working Group Meets in Kyiv; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/10/13 Azerbaijan Presidential Election;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/10/13 Elections in Maldives;  Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/07/13 Seven-Year Anniversary of the Murder of Anna Politkovskaya; Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/01/13 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 24th Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/27/13 Joint Statement on Standing Firm Behind Civil Society-Lifeline: The Embattled CSOs Assistance Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/26/13 Ministerial Declaration on Ending Violence and Discrimination Against Individuals Based on Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/23/13 Death of Cuban Economist and Activist Oscar Espinosa Chepe; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/23/13 Lifeline: Embattled Civil Society Organizations Assistance Fund; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/23/13 Opening of Cambodian National Assembly; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/23/13 U.S. Welcomes Agreement in Guinea to Delay Legislative Elections until September 28; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/19/13 Civil Society and Government Explore How Women Faith Leaders Foster Religious Freedom and Peace; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/18/13 Release of Political Prisoners in Iran; Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/11/13 Launch of the U.S. Coalition of Cities Against Racism and Discrimination; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/06/13 U.S. Pre-Election Delegation to Georgia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/04/13 Joint Statement by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States; Stockholm, Sweden
09/04/13 Joint Statement by President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden; Stockholm, Sweden
08/30/13 Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King to Travel to North Korea - Update; Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/27/13 Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King's Travel to North Korea; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/27/13 United States-European Union Human Rights Consultations; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/26/13 Freedom Online Coalition Joint Statement on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's Decree 72; Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/22/13 Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs Release of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume II, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/19/13 First United States-Myanmar Trafficking in Persons Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/13/13 Travel of Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/12/13 Detention of Bangladeshi Human Rights Activist Adilur Rahman Khan; Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/06/13 Secretary of State John Kerry to Launch Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/02/13 Second Anniversary of the Arrest of Ales Byalyatski; Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/01/13 Meeting of the U.S.-Honduras Bilateral Human Rights Working Group; Washington, DC
07/30/13 Advancing Disability Rights Around the World Through U.S. Department of State Exchanges; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/29/13 Meeting of the U.S.-Honduras Bilateral Human Rights Working Group; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/26/13 The 18th U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/25/13 Meeting on Religious Freedom in Vietnam; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/18/13 On the Conviction and Sentencing of Alexey Navalniy and Pyotr Ofitserov; Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/17/13 Steering Group Meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan To Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/16/13 Murder of Cameroonian LGBT and AIDS Activist Eric Ohena Lembembe; Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/15/13 In Memory of Russian Journalists Natalya Estemirova and Paul Klebnikov;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/15/13 U.S. Department of State's Path to Paralympics: Brazil Sports Diplomacy Program; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/10/13 Joint Statement of Second Kazakhstan-United States Strategic Partnership Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/02/13 Asia Civil Society Strategic Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/01/13 Situation in Amuda, Syria;  Director Patrick Ventrell, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
06/30/13 Deputy Secretary Burns' Travel to Iraq; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/28/13 Adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty To Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/26/13 Senior Adviser Tomicah Tillemann Travels to El Salvador; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/26/13 U.S. Department of State Announces First Sports Visitors Program with Turkey; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/19/13 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 23rd Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/18/13 Passage of Restrictive Communications Law in Ecuador;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/18/13 Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Ambassador Robert King and Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Baer Travel to Brussels; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/17/13 Pride at State: Secretary Kerry Speaks on LGBT Policy and Personnel Issues; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/14/13 Lost Music of the Holocaust: Music From Inside the Nazi Death Camps; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/14/13 Travel of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism to Belgium and Germany; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/13/13 Iraqi Government and Civil Society Leaders Participate in U.S. Program To Support Iraqi Widows and Female Heads of Household; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/12/13 Agreement on Legislative Elections Reached in Guinea;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/12/13 Conviction of Liu Hui;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/12/13 Winners of the 2012 Human Rights Awards; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/11/13 Colombia and United States to Hold First Meeting on Racial and Ethnic Equality Action Plan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/11/13 Senior Advisor Tillemann Travels to Hungary and Poland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/10/13 Colombia and United States To Hold First Meeting on Racial and Ethnic Equality Action Plan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/03/13 Legislative Elections in Equatorial Guinea;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/31/13 Message on the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of Tiananmen Square;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/31/13 U.S. Concerns with Proposed Egyptian Civil Society Law;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/30/13 United States Takes Action to Facilitate Communications by the Iranian People and Targets Iranian Government Censorship;  Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/21/13 Special Envoy Hussain Travels to Holocaust Sites in Poland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/20/13 Christopher Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, Travels to Stockholm, Sweden; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/20/13 Secretary Kerry Names New Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/20/13 U.S. Department of State Hosts EMPOWER Conference to Advance Disability Rights Worldwide; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/20/13 Visit of President U Thein Sein of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar / U.S. Assistance; Washington, DC
05/17/13 Secretary Kerry To Release Report on International Religious Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/17/13 State Department Hosts Workshop Promoting Labor and Human Rights Through Investment; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/17/13 Travel of Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King to Seoul and Tokyo; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/13/13 Ambassador-At-Large Stephen J. Rapp to Travel to Bangladesh; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/13/13 U.S. Department of State Announces First 2013 Sports Envoy Program Advancing Disability Rights and Inclusion in China; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/08/13 State Department Call With U.S. Buyers in Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment Sector; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/07/13 Taken Question: Reports of Mistreatment of Palestinian Christians Attempting to Attend Orthodox Easter Services; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/03/13 Assistant Secretary Hammer to Travel to Costa Rica and Miami; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/02/13 Burma: Termination of Presidential Proclamation 6925; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/01/13 U.S. Department of State Announces First 2013 Sports Visitor Exchange Program Advancing Disability Rights and Inclusion; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/30/13 Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Visits China; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/30/13 Renewal of the Charter for the Advisory Committee on the Secretary of State's Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/30/13 U.S. Department of State Launches Central America Journalism Security Hub; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/26/13 Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor To Travel to the Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/22/13 Senior Advisor for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies Tillemann Travels to Silicon Valley, Mongolia, and Burma; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/12/13 Release of Magnitsky List; Acting Deputy Spokesperson Patrick Ventrell, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/11/13 G8 Foreign Ministers' Meeting Statement; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/11/13 U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/05/13 Assistant Secretary Hammer To Travel to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/05/13 Reports of Saudi Paralysis Sentence (Taken Question); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/03/13 Ambassador at Large Stephen J. Rapp To Participate in Discussion on the Ability of Hague Tribunals to Protect Human Rights; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/25/13 Key U.S. Outcomes at the UN Human Rights Council 22nd Session; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/23/13 Strengthening the Inter-American System on Human Rights; Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/21/13 Deputy Secretary William J. Burns To Lead U.S. Delegation to the Organization of American States Special General Assembly; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/20/13 U.S. Releases First Ever Voluntary Principles Report; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/13/13 2013 Washington, DC Fulbright Enrichment Seminar on "Democracy and Human Rights: Civic Activism and the Media"; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/08/13 2013 Internet Freedom Fellows; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/08/13 Ambassador Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Travels to Geneva; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/05/13 U.S. Department of State Hosts Tech@State: Internet Freedom Conference; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/27/13 Ambassador at Large Stephen J. Rapp To Travel to Ottawa, Canada; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/25/13 Assistant Secretary of State Posner's Human Rights Visit to Burma; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/19/13 Assistant Secretary Posner Makes Human Rights Visits to Cambodia and Burma; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/13/13 Assistant Secretary Michael Posner's Travel to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Egypt; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/31/13 Secretary Clinton Announces Up to $86.5 Million in New Public-Private Partnerships; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/30/13 Secretary Clinton To Announce Launch of Up to $86.5 Million in Public-Private Partnerships; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/24/13 Department of State Marks United Nations International Day of Commemoration for Victims of the Holocaust (Shoah); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/16/13 Holocaust-Era Looted Art;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
01/11/13 Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Michael Posner Travels to Haiti; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC

2012
12/18/12 Human Rights in Belarus on the Anniversary of the December 19, 2010 Crackdown; Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/10/12 International Human Rights Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/10/12 Scores of Cuban Democracy Activists Detained on the Eve of Human Rights Day; Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/23/12 Roundtable Discussion With Investors on UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/19/12 Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom Opens "Religion, Violence, and Coexistence" Panel Discussion; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/21/12 Special Advisor for International Disability Rights Heumann to Travel to Finland and Russia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/21/12 Special Envoys Rosenthal and Davidson Commemorate the MS St. Louis with Survivors; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/18/12 Assistant Secretary Michael Posner Traveling to Geneva and Brussels; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/06/12 Statement by Assistant Secretary of State Michael H. Posner on his Visit to Uganda;  Assistant Secretary Michael H. Posner, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Kampala, Uganda
07/31/12 UN Guiding Principles On Business And Human Rights Workshop; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/30/12 State Department Unveils Format and Interface Upgrades for 2011 International Religious Freedom Reports; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/27/12 Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook to Present Annual International Religious Freedom Report; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/24/12 Assistant Secretary Posner on the U.S.- China Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/24/12 Conclusion of U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/20/12 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Rosenthal Visits London; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/19/12 U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue; Washington, DC
07/17/12 Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism Rosenthal Visits Hungary; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/11/12 World Population Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
07/10/12 Reflections on My Experience in Mannheim, Germany; Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal; Mannheim, Germany
07/06/12 Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism Rosenthal Visits Germany and Poland; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/20/12 Statement from Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal on Recent Events in Hungary; Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal; Released by U.S. Embassy Hungary
06/05/12 Assistant Secretary Posner Travel to Libya; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/25/12 USOSCE Screening of The Rescuers; Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal; Washington, DC
05/17/12 Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal in Rome, Italy and Vatican City; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/03/12 Highlights of the U.S. Department of State and USAID's Efforts to Support Press and Media Freedom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/18/12 Special Envoy Rosenthal to Visit Latvia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/18/12 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal Travel to Sweden; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/18/12 U.S.- China Legal Experts Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/17/12 Community of Democracies Appoints First Secretary-General;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
01/30/12 International Holocaust Remembrance Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
01/25/12 Conversations With America: The Role of Religion in Foreign Policy; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC

2011
12/09/11 International Human Rights Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
11/15/11 Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism to Speak at Conferences and Meet Civil Society Groups in United Kingdom, Lithuania, and Estonia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/07/11 Conversations with America: Recent Trends in Anti-Semitism Around the World; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/07/11 U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/21/11 Discussing Democracy and Human Rights Policy in the Obama Administration; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/15/11 Determination and Certification of the Colombian Government with Respect to Human Rights Related Conditions; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/10/11 Office of International Religious Freedom Provides Holocaust Education Grant to Centropa; Washington, DC
08/10/11 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Receives Award from the Haiti Jewish Refugee Legacy Project; Washington, DC
07/29/11 Assistant Secretary Michael Posner Travels to Sudan and South Sudan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/13/11 Assistant Secretary Posner to Speak on Internet Freedom at New America Foundation; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/27/11 U.S. Department of State Hosts TechCamp Vilnius; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/15/11 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal to Travel to Lithuania and Belgium; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/31/11 Second Round of the High-Level Partnership Dialogue between the United States and Colombia; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
05/16/11 Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook sworn in as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom; Acting Deputy Spokesman Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
05/11/11 Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal Honors the Work of Father Patrick Desbois; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
05/04/11 Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor Michael Posner To Discuss Human Rights and the Internet; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
05/02/11 Defending Press Freedom in the 21st Century; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
04/21/11 United States and China To Hold Human Rights Dialogue; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC Also available in Chinese
04/01/11 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal To Speak at Indiana University; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
03/30/11 The United Nations Human Rights Council; Acting Deputy Spokesman Mark C. Toner, Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
03/01/11 UN General Assembly Suspends Libya's Human Rights Council Membership;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
01/20/11 Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner to Visit Afghanistan and Pakistan; Washington, DC
01/17/11 Prosecutor for Special Tribunal for Lebanon Files Indictment for Confirmation by Pre-Trial Judge;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
01/17/11 Successful Completion of Polling in the Southern Sudan Referendum;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
01/14/11 Religious Freedom Day, 2011; The White House Office of the Press Secretary; Washington, DC
01/13/11 Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner to Discuss the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy; Washington, DC

2010
12/09/10 Human Rights Day 2010;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/07/10 U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
11/08/10 Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh to Attend the Signing of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers ; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
11/04/10 Special Representative Rosenthal to Address Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
11/03/10 U. S. Government Statement On Ukraine's Local Elections; Kyiv, Ukraine
10/18/10 Launch of Human Rights Resource Center for ASEAN; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
09/15/10 Democracy Photo Challenge Winners Announced During International Day of Democracy; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
09/15/10 Determination and Certification of the Colombian Government and Armed Forces with Respect to Human Rights Related Conditions; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
08/31/10 Attacks on Afghan School Children;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
08/24/10 Release of the U.S. Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
08/20/10 U.S. Ambassador's Statement on the National Bank of Romania's Decision to Issue a Commemorative Coin for Patriarch Miron Cristea; Released by the U.S. Embassy; Bucharest, Romania
06/15/10 Nomination of Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
06/07/10 Joint Department of State-Department of Labor Conference to Focus on the Global Fight Against Child Labor; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
05/03/10 World Press Freedom Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
04/08/10 International Roma Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
01/25/10 Jakarta Interfaith Event; Washington, DC
01/20/10 Arson Attacks on Etz-Hayyim Synagogue; Acting Deputy Department Spokesman Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
01/11/10 Persecution of Religious Minorities in Iran;  Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC

2009
09/25/09 Election of Prime Minister of Moldova;  Department Spokesman Ian Kelly; Washington, DC
03/31/09 U.S. to Run for Election to the UN Human Rights Council; Acting Deputy Department Spokesman Gordon Duguid, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
04/27/09 Human Rights Commitments and Pledges of the United States of America; Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
05/01/09 World Press Freedom Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
05/12/09 Election of the United States to the Human Rights Council;  Department Spokesman Ian Kelly; Washington, DC
08/19/09 Commemoration of World Humanitarian Day;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
12/09/09 Secretary Clinton Honors Champions of Human Rights: Marks International Human Rights Day; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC