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3rd May 2012 Washington DC, USA
World Press Freedom Day
This week marks two auspicious events. One year ago yesterday, I started work at the Embassy in Washington. Even aside from the mad dash to the airport in Moscow, the missed flights and unplanned but very pleasant stopover in Copenhagen, it was quite the day to remember. It’s also World Press Freedom Day, the day […]
3rd May 2012 New York, USA
A Sojourn in Steel City
Known as the “City of Bridges,” Pittsburgh has more bridges than Venice. Last week, on 26 April, the newest one was unveiled; a metaphorical bridge, admittedly, in the form of the posting of a UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) officer to the Pittsburgh area-based National Cyber-Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA) marks the forging of an […]
3rd May 2012 Nairobi, Kenya
Somalia: World Press Freedom Day
On World Press Freedom Day, my thoughts are with the families of the brave Somali journalists who were killed on the course of duty and those who still brave the dangers of operating in one of the most difficult places in the world to be a be a journalist. The shocking fact is that so […]
3rd May 2012
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Ambassador reaches new depths
Last week I found myself at the lowest point in Africa with some Embassy colleagues. Lac Assal in Djibouti is 155 metres below sea level – Mirage pilots stationed nearly like to skim the surface, so they can say they have flown under the sea. The lake itself is heavily salted and you have to […]
1st May 2012 New Delhi, India
Indo-UK Science & Innovation Council
Ministers meet to agree the broad science and innovation agenda for the UK-India relationship and S&IN India invades the UK!
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30th April 2012 Bucharest, Romania
Six things they don’t tell you when you apply for an internship at the British Embassy
So you’ve checked the embassy’s call for interns here and you have decided to apply for an internship at the British Embassy! If you are an undergraduate or graduate student with an economic/political background interested in EU economy/ political affairs, you are about to step into one of the most competitive and dynamic job markets […]
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30th April 2012 Budapest, Hungary
Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report – 2011
Guest blog by Levente Nyitrai, Policy Officer, British Embassy Budapest Today marks an important occasion in the United Kingdom and the field of human rights worldwide. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, is launching the Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report for 2011 in London. He is laying the report in Parliament after which he is […]
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30th April 2012
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Human Rights and Democracy
On 30 April the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, launched the FCO’s Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report for 2011. This is one of the British Government’s major annual human rights events, highlighting our global human rights priorities. It is intended to increase awareness of the UK’s role in promoting human rights worldwide, as well as […]
27th April 2012 Washington DC, USA
Do we have the right to be forgotten on the internet?
Last night I hosted an event for former Marshall Scholars at the Embassy with a brilliant talk by Jeff Rosen on Google, the internet, and privacy. This is of course a hot topic at the moment – for the public, for Governments, for NGOs and for businesses. I’ve also got a keen interest in it as […]
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27th April 2012 Ottawa, Canada
Celebrating our contributions to polar research
This week, Montreal is hosting the International Polar Year conference, IPY 2012: From Knowledge to Action. IPY 2012 brings together over 3000 international experts from across a variety of fields, with the ambitious agenda of using the knowledge accumulated by researchers during international polar year activities, and developing concrete actions to move forward. The polar […]
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