“For all we know about the impact conflict has on women and girls, there is so much that never cracks the surface,” said Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield.
"The more countries who join us in applying pressure, the more we raise the cost on perpetrators, and the more we force them to think twice before detaining additional innocent people," said Secretary Blinken.
Secretary Blinken said that "only the Haitian people should determine their own future - not anyone else. But all of us ... CARICOM, the United States, our other partners – we can help."
“As food prices hit record highs following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we rushed to get high quality seeds, fertilizer and financing to the markets and into the hands of some of the world's poorest farmer farmers,” said USAID Assistant to the Administrator Esposito.
“The United States stands with every woman of courage working to build greater stability, greater equality, and greater opportunity,” said Secretary Blinken.
"We have a shared commitment to safe, orderly, humane migration, and we want to make sure that the work that we are doing continues to move in that direction," said Secretary Blinken.
“The scale of some of these global challenges is immense, and I know that there are times when it feels like those challenges are outpacing our collective capacity to tackle them,” said Secretary Blinken.
"[T]he United States is working side by side with Brazil to support its efforts to preserve the rainforest, to combat deforestation," said Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
In Venezuela, the regime of Nicholas Maduro has arrested one of the country’s most prominent human rights activists Rocio San Miguel and ordered the local United Nations office of human rights to close.
There is “ample evidence to back up a harsh, harsh reality: that sexual violence continues to be used as a weapon of war,” said Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Forty-five American hostages have been released since 2021, “including just in December when we brought home six American citizens ... wrongfully held in Venezuela,” said Secretary of State Blinken.
"Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continue to unjustly detain or force into exile those who wish to exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms in Nicaragua," said State Spokesperson Miller.
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