US Mission Geneva

Tom Bombelles from the Global Challenges Division at WIPO, explains what WIPO does and the importance of balancing the social and humanitarian need to provide access to important, life saving drugs for all and supporting innovation, which is a risky, long and expensive process. View This Video See More Videos in This Series

  Policy and Programs The Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) is committed to advancing the rights of women and girls as a central focus of U.S. diplomatic, development and defense interests. The work of the office is organized based on four pillars: 1) Promoting the full engagement of women in the political and economic spheres; [...]

In the fourth video in our “Americans Abroad” profile series, Ms. Kira Glover Kruglikova, Executive Officer of the Division of Conference Management at the United Nations Office in Geneva, explains how U.N. translators in Geneva are often the bridge between those who have endured human rights abuses and the rest of the world learning about [...]

In the third video in our “Americans Abroad” profile series Dr. Steven Goldfarb, a research physicist from the University of Michigan, talks about the  ATLAS experiment at CERN and the quest for the Higgs boson particle. “The Higgs has been there since the beginning of time,” says Dr. Goldfarb, “but we haven’t yet had a [...]

The U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva is pleased to present the first interview in a new series entitled “Americans Abroad: Getting Things Done in Geneva” in which we will highlight the important work Americans do at the UN and other international organizations in Geneva.

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The United States and its international partners “made a great deal of progress” in 2011 in adopting measures that can “turn our commitment to Internet freedom into reality,” according to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael H. Posner.

Many of the tools and information to help you protect your identity and more safely use the Internet and mobile technology to get the information you want can be found online.

The Government of Syria continues to carry out a pattern of gross human rights violations despite promises to stop. As Secretary Clinton said yesterday, from the U.S. perspective, President Assad “has lost legitimacy.” She said: “President Assad is not indispensible, and we have absolutely nothing invested in him remaining in power. Our goal is to see that the will of the Syrian people for a democratic transformation occurs.”