News and reports from the State Department.

Release: Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erin Barclay will travel to Geneva, Switzerland February 24 to March 1 for meetings around the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC).

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) released the following statement ahead of the one year anniversary of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine.

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Youth Empowerment in Serbia. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009443. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of Solicitation:...

Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the Governments of Slovenia and the United States of America after the third U.S.-Slovenia Strategic Dialogue held in Washington D.C.

Release: On the margins of the I2U2 Business Forum in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Under Secretary of State Jose W. Fernandez welcomed the Joint Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dammu Ravi signing a letter expressing the Indian Government’s intention to join the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate...

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Improving Workers Rights, Strengthening Independent Media, and Expanding Civic Participation in Pakistan. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009448.

Release: Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erin Barclay will travel to Geneva, Switzerland February 24 to March 1 for meetings around the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC).

Improving State Procedures to Counter GBV grant opened on Feb. 24.

News Release: The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations’ Office of Cultural Heritage has confirmed the authenticity of a painting of George Washington after the Battle of Princeton that was gifted to the embassy in 1989 by Caroline Ryan Foulke and hangs in the U.S. Embassy Paris Ambassador’s Residence. The painting, ...

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Youth Empowerment in Serbia. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009443. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of Solicitation: ...

Release: I extend my warmest wishes to all those celebrating Losar, the Tibetan New Year. On this first day of the Year of the Water Hare, we celebrate the perseverance, compassion, and strength of Tibetans across the globe, including the over 26,000 members of the Tibetan diaspora in the United States. The United...

Release: (As Prepared). Thank you to our host His Excellency Minister Al Sayegh and to my distinguished counterparts from India, Secretary Ravi, and from Israel, Political Director Bin Noun. It’s a pleasure to be here in Abu Dhabi where government officials and business leaders have come together to assess the...

News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022:

Secretary Blinken’s Call with Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Minister Konakovic

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Kerry’s Travel to The Bahamas and Germany