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More than a Job

Special Advisor on International Disability Rights Sara Minkara (center with white face mask) speaks to one of the students at the Lalla Asmaa Foundation during a visit to Morocco, March 23, 2022. During her visit, Minkara commended the Lalla Asmaa Foundation for providing quality inclusive education to students who are deaf and hard of hearing. Photo by Yassine Ameur

Office of the Special Advisor on International Disability Rights

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Military Advisors detailed to the Department of State, May 31. Photo by Freddie Everett

Interagency Partnership

Valuable Experience

In 1950, on the second anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, students at the U.N. International Nursery School in New York viewed a poster of the historic document. U.N. Photo

Department highlights human rights

The Bureau of International Information Programs Diversity Working Group—partnering with the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs and the Department of State’s Disability Action Group—hosted the co-founders of John’s Crazy Socks, John and Mark Cronin, March 5. The father-and-son entrepreneur team shared how they took John’s vision to market and now run a company with global recognition. Their company includes 39 employees, 23 of whom have disabilities.

Diversity team shares entrepreneurial success

Department hosts accessibility experts for NDEAM