Special Advisor on International Disability Rights Sara Minkara on The Greek Current Podcast: “Advancing the rights of persons with disabilities in Greece and the U.S.” Recorded: September 9, 2023, 9am Eastern Time Thanos Davelis: Welcome to the Greek Current, a podcast by HALC and Kathimerini. I’m your host, Thanos Davelis. As the U.S.-Greece partnership reaches …
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Special Envoy Jessica Stern: “And so my role is to ensure that those conversations between the U.S. government and our counterparts in other governments include human rights and specifically the rights of LGBTQI+ persons. So how does this all come together? Well, I have to say I had the great pleasure of visiting Greece …
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Ambassador Pyatt: “I’d like to start with that point, that President Biden is strongly committed to our work with Greece to help ensure that both our countries enjoy a sustainable economic growth trajectory as we begin to climb our way out of the global pandemic and all of the disruption that that has caused. The …
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Greece is a constitutional republic and multiparty parliamentary democracy. Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral parliament, which approves a government headed by a prime minister. In July 2019 the country held parliamentary elections that observers considered free and fair. A government formed by the New Democracy Party headed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis leads …
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Secretary Tillerson (June 27): “The State Department’s 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report exposes human trafficking networks and holds their operators and their accomplices accountable.” Full Text» DipNote» More»
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Press Statement Rex W. Tillerson Secretary of State Washington, DC June 7, 2017 In recognition of LGBTI Month, the Department of State affirms its solidarity with the human rights defenders and civil society organizations working around the world to uphold the fundamental freedoms of LGBTI persons to live with dignity and freedom. We also recognize …
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