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The visitors met with MBA students from the University of New Mexico to learn about international business.
The IWOC award recognizes women around the globe who have demonstrated exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equality, and women's empowerment, often at great personal risk and sacrifice. Through IWOC, now in its fourteenth year, the U.S. Department of State has honored over 130 awardees from more than 65 countries.
This panel, hosted at the Elliott School, will be comprised of three 2020 IWOC awardees in conversation with Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs. We invite the public to hear about these courageous women's experiences and interact with them through a Q&A.
The IWOC award recognizes women around the globe who have demonstrated exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equality, and women's empowerment, often at great personal risk and sacrifice. Through IWOC, now in its fourteenth year, the U.S. Department of State has honored over 130 awardees from more than 65 countries.
This panel, hosted at the Elliott School, will be comprised of three 2020 IWOC awardees in conversation with Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs. We invite the public to hear about these courageous women's experiences and interact with them through a Q&A.
Forty-seven elected officials, political party leaders, and civic activists from around the world are participating in the IVLP project “The U.S. Electoral Process” to observe U.S. approaches to political campaigns and election administration. The participants from 45 countries were welcomed to the State Department by Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Marie Royce; the Director of the Office of International Visitors Anne Grimes; and IVLP program officer Stephen Taylor. The meeting also included presentations by officials of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor:
- Christie Arendt, Global Affairs Section Head, Office of Multilateral and Global Affairs, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL/MLGA),
- Carolyn Zander, Lead Program Analyst, Rapid Response, Office of Global Programming, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL/GP)
Ms. Habibatou Moussa Hassane (Niger), Ms. Gretta Gangbo (Benin), Ms. Naomi Ataguba (Nigeria) and Ms. Obafemi Olayebi (Nigeria) met with Desiree Rogers, the CEO of Johnson Publishing Company.
The W-GDP group explored the focus, scope and mission of the W-GDP Initiative with representatives of partner agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the U.S. Department of State (DoS). With the NSC’s Mia Mitchell as moderator, the speakers discussed how their agencies support the three pillars of the W-GDP Initiative (I, Advancing women in the workforce; II, Promoting women’s entrepreneurship and III, Identifying and reducing barriers to women’s full participation in the global economy). Following the roundtable, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Meridian International Center hosted a networking reception, including remarks by Ms. Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the President of the United States.
Peste 1500 de romani au participat in programe de schimburi culturale si educationale finantate de @Exchange Programs - U.S. Department of State. Luni, 28 septembrie, am avut bucuria sa ne revedem cu o parte din participanti, ocazie cu care Ambasada a aniversat si 75 de ani de la infiintarea #IVLP.