U.S. State Department’s “DipNote”: World Humanitarian Summit: Coming Together to Protect Women and Girls
Anne C. Richard, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration at the U.S. Department of State, discusses U.S. efforts to protect women and girls, including “empowering women and girls as leaders and agents of change, ensuring that aid operations respond to their specific needs, improving access to sexual and reproductive health care and rights, coordinating [gender based violence (GBV)] prevention and response across the globe, and ensuring that governments and other organizations fully comply with gender equality norms and international standards” (5/26).