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Human rights conference highlights Russia’s abuses in Ukraine

Staff members of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy pose with Secretary of State Antony Blinken (center).The staff represents more than 60 Civil and Foreign Service officers, and the bureau plans to hire more than 50 employees in the coming year, April 4. Photo by Ron Przysucha

System Update

OSCE member states sign the Moscow Mechanism

The main building of the Organization of American States is located on the corner of 17th Street NW and Constitution Avenue in Washington. Photo by Luis A Jimenez

U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States

Equal Opportunity

Uyghur women work in a clothing factory in Hotan County in the Xinjiang province, April 27, 2019. Photo by Azamat Imanaliev

Advisory warns businesses of risks in northwest China

Creating a culture of inclusion

Ethnic Kazakh-Chinese participants hold pictures of their family members detained in Xinjiang, China at a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Feb. 2. Photo by Ron Przysucha

Defending China’s Vulnerable Minorities

In 1950, on the second anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, students at the U.N. International Nursery School in New York viewed a poster of the historic document. U.N. Photo

Department highlights human rights

The U.S. Mission to the U.N. in Geneva and the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) co-hosted a seminar, Conflict and Stabilization: Best Practices, Challenges, and New Approaches, in Geneva, Nov. 7. As many parts of the world today are impacted by violent conflict, stabilization has become a topic of increasing importance for individual countries, the U.N., and regional and global coalitions. Nearly 100 attendees representing governments, NGOs, academia, and international organizations, participated in an exchange on contemporary approaches to stabilization, including the U.S. government’s Stabilization Assistance Review, and its intersection with other disciplines, such as humanitarian assistance, human rights, and long-term peacebuilding. Panelists included Senior Advisor for CSO Eythan Sontag, President of Interpeace Scott Weber, and the Head of the European Union’s Division for the Integrated Approach to Security and Peace Madeleine Majorenko. Jason Aplon, peacebuilding and post-conflict advisor for the International Organization for Migration moderated the event, and U.S. Mission Geneva’s Chargé d’Affaires Mark Cassayre delivered welcome remarks. The event was broadcast on Facebook Live and can be watched online. Photo by Eric Bridiers

Geneva Peace Week examines approaches to conflict stabilization