Another Visitor We Missed Or Rather Missed Us

Meet Melanne Verveer with Mr. Hani Masri, founder of Tomorrow’s Youth Organization (TYO), overlooking the hills of Nablus:

and here she is in Abboud Village, with participants of the USG-funded Leading Women Program:

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Who is Melanie Verveer?

She is

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Term of Appointment: 04/06/2009 to present

President Barack Obama appointed Melanne Verveer as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. The President’s decision to create a position of Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues is unprecedented, and reflects the elevated importance of these issues to the President and his entire Administration. In her capacity as director of the Department of State’s new office on Global Women’s Issues, Ambassador Verveer coordinates foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women around the world. She mobilizes concrete support for women’s rights and political and economic empowerment through initiatives and programs designed to increase women’s and girls’ access to education and health care, to combat violence against women and girls in all its forms, and to ensure that women's rights are fully integrated with human rights in the development of U.S. foreign policy.

Another Ameriucan official who came all the way out here and missed we Jewish residents.

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