Category: World

Nuku’alofa, Tonga – The Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Amy Pope and Pat Conroy, Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, today announced the launch of a new initiative to enhance support for migrant workers and their families participating in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme.    The programme […]

UK supporting Pacific-led climate solutions with £12.9 million in new funding Announcement comes as Indo-Pacific Minister Catherine West joins Pacific leaders for regional ministerial meeting in Tonga The UK is providing targeted funding and expertise to support Pacific-led climate action, Indo-Pacific Minister Catherine West will tell a meeting of regional leaders in Tonga later this […]

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous figures of his time, not only in his native Prussia but throughout the world. In addition to being a leading geographer, climatologist, ecologist and oceanographer, he attached great importance to the dissemination of knowledge to society as a whole. Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) – painting […]

Acting Secretary Julie Su with workers at Blue Bird Corp.’s Fort Valley, Georgia, facility in July. They reached a first union contract with the United Steelworkers in under a year. Labor Day is Sept. 2 and this time of year, more than any other, I find myself reflecting on America’s labor unions. Unionized workers made significant […]

The United States welcomes the resumption of humanitarian assistance deliveries through the Adré border crossing from Chad into Sudan and related diplomatic efforts to reopen emergency aid deliveries to famine-stricken portions of Darfur via the Dabbah Road from Port Sudan. The woeful lack of humanitarian aid access into Darfur over the past six months has […]

Today in Dakar, Senegal, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Julieta Valls Noyes announced more than $64 million in life-saving humanitarian assistance for Sub-Saharan Africa.  This is just the latest demonstration of the U.S. commitment to Sub-Saharan Africa, with recent announcements by Under Secretary Uzra Zeya, Ambassador Jeffrey Prescott, […]

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that initial reports indicated that hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland have been inundated. In the hardest-hit areas, urgent needs include basic food, drinking water, and sanitation. The emergency compounds the dire situation across vast areas of Myanmar more than three years since a military coup that […]

The sound of explosions rang out in central Kyiv on Monday morning during rush hour as Ukraine’s military warned of a massive Russian missile and drone attack following waves of drone attacks in the early hours. The air force told Ukrainians Russia had 11 TU-95 strategic bombers in the air and confirmed the launch of […]

Chair, The United Kingdom remains committed to the long-term goal of a world without nuclear weapons in a transparent, verifiable, and irreversible manner and with undiminished security for all. We firmly believe the best way to achieve this goal is through gradual multilateral disarmament negotiated through the NPT. The only viable, effective framework for achieving […]

This week the Women’s Bureau is marking both Women’s Equality Day – commemorating the 19th Amendment, which was a huge step forward for some American women, but not a truly inclusive one – and Labor Day, when the entire country celebrates the American worker and how far we’ve come. It’s a time for reflection. Over […]