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Ending Modern Slavery

Modern slavery is a crime that victimizes as many as 27 million men, women, and children around the world.

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USAID Joins Sanitation And Water For All

The United States invests hundreds of millions of dollars in water sector activities around the world.

Schistosoma mansoni worms, the cause of schistosomiasis, seen through a microscope.

On Neglected Tropical Diseases

Over a billion people, one in every six people living on this planet, suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases.

Secretary Clinton speaks on the opening day of the first-ever Global Impact Economy Forum in the Loy Henderson at the State Department.

Clinton At Global Impact Economy Forum

The United States works to create conditions for the less affluent to prosper.

Realizing Opportunities In The Americas

Engagement with our Latin America, Caribbean, and Canadian neighbors remains a top priority for the United States.

Dr. Tomicah Tillemann at a press briefing at the United Nations in Geneva.

Strategic Dialogue With Civil Society 2012 Summit

Civil society groups are playing an increasingly important role in global affairs.

Fairness For Alan Gross

Alan Gross was working in Cuba as a subcontractor on a project for USAID when he was arrested.

United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)

Kirk On U.S.-Asia Pacific Trade

Our broad goal is a vibrant, seamless regional economy with global supply chains clustered around the Pacific Rim.

Defending Press Freedom

Many journalists around the world who have been jailed, attacked, disappeared, and forced into exile or murdered for reporting truth.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to students at Maxwell School of Syracuse University in New York.

Clinton On America And The World

"The world will be well-served if American leadership remains as essential today as it has in the past."

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta attends a press conference in Brasilia, Brazil, April 24, 2012.

U.S. Defense And Brazil

The United States supports Brazil as a global leader and seeks closer defense cooperation.

World Press Freedom Day 2012

A free press safeguards any political system based on the will of the people.

Obama At The Summit Of The Americas

"As nations, as neighbors, we rise and fall together."

Press Freedom Matters

Press freedom matters because without a free press, few other human rights are attainable.

A mother with her child seeking food aid in Mogadishu last month.  The United Nations has now declared the end of the famine in Somalia.

Saving Children Under 5

Every child should have the opportunity to celebrate his or her fifth birthday.

Safeguarding IP Rights

The intent behind legal protection of intellectual property is to generate incentive to innovate.

On The Trade In Humans

Around the world, between 12 and 27 million people are living in modern slavery.

Foreign tourists in safari riverboats observe elephants along the Chobe river bank near Botswana's northern border where Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia. (File Photo)

Protecting Endangered Wildlife

The United States Congress established the Multinational Species Conservation Funds.

World Malaria Day 2012

On April 25th we observe World Malaria day, in hopes of highlighting the global effort to provide effective control of this disease.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the annual Open Government Partnership conference in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday April 17, 2012. Clinton is on a two-day visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Open Government Partnership

Fifty-five countries are now participating in the initiative, encompassing a quarter of the world’s people.

Somali boys fetch water from a puddle that formed after rain at the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya, October 2011. (file photo)

More U.S. Money For Refugees

The United States is contributing $482.05 million toward the 2012 operations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.


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