UN Human Rights Council Organizational Meeting of the 4th Cycle

Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., Mark C. Storella and Ambassador Martin Umohoibhi. (Mission Photo by Eric Bridiers)

• Statement by the Delegation of the United States, Delivered by Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. Mark C. Storella

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Release of the Ninth Annual Trafficking in Persons Report

"The human trafficking phenomenon affects virtually every country, including the United States. In acknowledging America’s own struggle with modern-day slavery and slavery-related practices, we offer partnership. We call on every government to join us in working to build consensus and leverage resources to eliminate all forms of human trafficking." -- Secretary Clinton, June 16, 2009

• Remarks by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Briefing by Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Fact Sheet: Trafficking in Persons: Coercion in a Time of Economic Crisis

98th Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, June 3-19

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis meets with Argentine President Kirchner in Geneva on 15 June, on the margins of the International Labor Organization’s annual International Labor Conference (Photo courtesy of the Mission of Argentina)

Videos of U.S. Delegates' Remarks

• June 17th afternoon, 19th sitting - summit on the global jobs crisis
  Employer speech by Edward Potter, Director Global Labor Relations, Coca-Cola Company
  
  
• June 16th afternoon, 15th sitting - summit on the global jobs crisis
  Worker speech by John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO
  
  
• June 12th afternoon, 8th sitting - world day against child labor
  Remarks by Senator Tom Harkin
  
  
  Other Resources:

- Recovery.gov
- U.S. Labor Department Program Plans

Remarks by the President on a New Beginning

Seeks a new beginning between U.S., Muslim world based on mutual respect

June 4
President Obama’s Remarks at Cairo University, Egypt

• Watch the President’s speech
  
• Listen to the speech podcast
  

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius briefs the press at the UN in Geneva Mission Photo by Eric Bridiers

Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen G. Sebelius at the World Health Assembly

May 18
Remarks at the Plenary Session

May 19
Press Briefing with Kathleen Sebelius

Transcript

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