US Mission Geneva

The Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) and Justice Rapid Response (JRR) is seeking an individual for the position of Program and Liaison Officer.

We commend Serbia’s notable progress in protecting and promoting human rights.

We commend Liechtenstein’s strong commitment to the rule of law, democracy, freedom of expression, and the protection of religious freedom. We applaud the government’s programs on Holocaust education and public commemoration ceremonies.

We commend the UAE for improving some protections for migrant workers, including implementing procedures to identify victims of forced labor.

We begin the New Year with renewed commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons – a goal which my President has made a hallmark of his international security agenda.

The WHO report marks a new phase in the prevention, control and elimination of many tropical diseases. Globally more than 1 billion people, approximately half of them children, suffer from one or more painful and debilitating tropical diseases.

In December 2009, the United States delegation came to the SCCR and said that we had concluded that it was the time to fashion new norms in International copyright to address what we believe is a legitimate concern, the book famine – the unjustifiable lack of availability of special format copies for visually impaired persons and for persons with print disabilities — throughout the world. We believe that the book famine exists and we believe our work here can go a substantial way – not all the way – to addressing the problem.

The United States continues to demonstrate its commitment to address the potential humanitarian consequences caused by landmine use

The United States places great value in CCW as a framework that brings together States with diverse national security interests; we all share the collective goal of balancing military necessity with real concern for the humanitarian consequences of certain conventional weapons.