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Beyond Guadalcanal

An Optelec Traveler HD Electronic Video Magnifier displayed at the Access Center allows users to comfortably read magnified text via its unique slide and read mechanism. Photo by Ron Przysucha

Equity Equation

The personnel of the Civilian Observer Unit, 2022. Photo courtesy of the Multinational Force and Observers

Promoting Peace

A panel discussion at the fourth anti-trafficking in persons conclave in Ranchi, in the state of Jharkhand of India, March 27, 2015. The conclave brought together 275 delegates representing civil society, law enforcement, and local government from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma, and the United States. At the end of the conclave, the Jharkhand state government announced new legislation to ensure the registration of domestic-labor placement agencies and to require that the proceeds from the property of convicted traffickers could be used to help their victims. Photo by Amit Bhatt

Knowledge Power

Watch and Crisis Management Officers, from left: Chukwudi Nwadibia, Jasmine Lopez, Lauren O’Doherty, Emily Yu, and Hermes Grullon, who participated in the Pickering Fellowship, stand outside the remodeled Operations Center, August 2022. Photo courtesy of Iris22 Productions

Diplomatic Engine Room

The Conflict Observatory

Misawa City mayor Yoshinori Kohiyama (right) and Consul General Andrew Lee (left) visit the newly constructed solar field at Misawa Air Base, Japan, June 8. The facility is part of a $206 million initiative that will ultimately generate up to 80% of the joint-service installation’s energy needs, reducing demands on the local community’s power grid. Photo by Leon Redfern

Taking Action

In Brief

Ambassador participates in historic visit

In a landmark first visit by an American ambassador to the Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures, and her own first visit to the Northern...

U.N. breakfast celebrates International Youth Day

U.S. Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield hosted a breakfast meeting to celebrate International Youth Day at the chief of mission’s residence...

Suriname Speaker’s Program hosts NASA engineer

The public diplomacy section at Embassy Paramaribo hosted NASA Engineer Z. Nagin Cox as part of a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Speaker’s...

Embassy Prague mailroom clerk honored for 50 years of service

Embassy Prague honored locally employed staff member Miroslav Bartunek (left) with a Certificate of Appreciation for 50 years of service presented by Ambassador Michael...

Director General welcomes combined Foreign Service class

Director General of the Foreign Service Marcia Bernicat (right) leads the combined 166/212 Foreign Service class through the oath of office during a ceremony...

Flashback: October 1966

The October 1966 issue highlighted the burgeoning role of computers in foreign affairs statistical analysis. The feature article examined the Department of State’s potential...