Obama names Jill Biden aide to women's envoy post

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. State Department's religious freedoms report described a continued global increase in anti-Semitism. Of great concern were expressions of anti-Semitism by government officials, by religious leaders, and by the media, ...

Alyssa Ayres, U.S. Department of State's Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, will lead a women's tech delegation comprising senior executives from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector to Bangalore on ...

U.S. Department of State Remarks by Tara Sonenshine Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Bole Preparatory School Addis Ababa, Ethiopia April 28, 2013 Global Youth Service Day Tree Planting Thank you Principal Daniel and Director ...

Details on Crime Ring Arrests Following is the complete text of a Department of Justice statement. A four-count federal indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn charging eight defendants with participating in two worldwide cyber-attacks that inflicted ...

The Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State (STAS) coordinated sessions, May 13-14, focused on science and engineering diasporas in partnership with Networks of Diasporas in Engineering and Science (NODES) during the ...

Local business owner and community volunteer Tami Harris has won the coveted title of 2012 Greater Federation of Women's Clubs-Mississippi Federation of Women's Clubs (MFWC) Club Woman of the Year for the state of Mississippi. A member of the Civic ...

AS part of its efforts to improve the quality of lives through extensive use of digital technology, global technology company, Intel Corporation Nigeria, has entered into a partnership with the African Women Entrepreneurship programme AWEP for the ...

(STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC May 13, 2013 The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announced today that Paralympian Dr. Andrea ...

These tales of misogyny should jolt us to connect the dots and to shine a stronger light on the violence against women that's always there beneath the surface. In just the last few days, weve seen a series of news stories involving violence ...