Africa: Acting Assistant Secretary Simon Henshaw To Travel to Uganda for Refugee Summit

Acting Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration Simon Henshaw will travel to Uganda from June 21-23 as part of the United States delegation to the Uganda Solidarity Summit on Refugees, led by U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac. The Summit, hosted by Ugandan President Museveni and UN Secretary General Guterres, is being held in light of Uganda now hosting nearly 1.3 million refugees, including those entering in large numbers from South Sudancurrently the worlds fastest-growing refugee crisis.Assistant Secretary Henshaws visit reinforces the U.S. commitment to the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, which demonstrated the unity of the international community in humanitarian efforts to save lives, protect rights, and share responsibility on a global scale.For more information on the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, visit www.state.gov/j/prm and follow @StatePRM on Twitter.Distributed by APO on behalf of U.S. Department of State.Media filesDownload logo
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