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  1. Religious Leaders Arrive in the United States for International Visitor Leadership Program

    Twenty six community and faith leaders from around the world arrived in the United States to begin an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on interfaith dialogue and religious freedom. The participants, representing different religious and faith-based organizations, as well as secular institutions, will engage in discussions with one another and their American counterparts to promote interfaith dialogue and explore ways to ensure the rights of religious minorities are protected.

  2. Cultural Antiquities Task Force Sponsors Training for Egyptian Law Enforcement

    The Cultural Antiquities Task Force (CATF) recently supported a workshop in Cairo jointly organized by the U.S. Embassy and the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on protecting cultural property and investigating cases of illegally exported antiquities.

  3. TechGirls Program Expands to Central Asia

    The TechGirls exchange program launched in 2012 to encourage secondary school girls (ages 15-17) from the Middle East and North Africa to pursue careers in tech and higher education.

  4. Interagency Training Builds Capacity to Protect Cultural Heritage

    Cultural property, art, and antiquities around the world are vulnerable to looting, theft, and trafficking by criminal and terrorist groups.

  5. U.S. Embassy Launches Academy for Women Entrepreneurs

    SUVA – The United States Ambassador Joseph Cella welcomed over 70 Fijian women entrepreneurs today at the U.S. Embassy to celebrate the launch of the Academy of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE), a program designed to further enhance their business prowess.

  6. U.S., Bahamas salvage hurricane-damaged artifacts

    Almost a year after Hurricane Dorian battered The Bahamas, a partnership between Bahamian and U.S. museum officials continues to save damaged cultural objects.

  7. IVLP Virtual

    In 2020, the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Visitors launched IVLP Virtual, the newest addition to the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).

  8. U.S. and Greece Work Together to Protect Cultural Heritage

    September 22, 2021. Athens, Greece: The United States and Greece signed a bilateral cultural property agreement extending existing import restrictions for Greek cultural property and expanding the terms of the agreement to include additional categories of ecclesiastical ethnological material.

  9. State Department Announces Gilman Top Producing Institutions

    During the academic year 2020-2021, nearly 300 Gilman participating institutions sent nearly 800 recipients to 48 U.S. states, D.C, and Puerto Rico to study or intern abroad, including virtually, in 77 locations around the world.

  10. Secretary Blinken Meeting with YLAI ExchangeAlumni in Chile

    On October 5, in Santiago, Chile, Secretary Antony J. Blinken met with four ExchangeAlumni of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship Program.

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