The State Department’s Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs is the senior-most U.S. official with direct oversight of America’s human rights policies worldwide. 

What a powerful symbol that would be of America’s re-commitment to its own founding values of equality, justice, and genuine respect for diversity – values that make this country so great!

Michael Guest is a senior adviser at the Council for Global Equality and the former ambassador to Romania

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