Political India: Engaging America

From The Hindu

Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues is visiting India this week, the State Department announced. She will also be visiting China after her meetings in India.

A statement from the office of the State Department Spokesman notified that Ms. Verveer is in India this week, during September 11-15 and would be meeting with various self-help groups, businesswomen and NGOs working on human rights and women’s empowerment issues in Chennai.

Further, the Ambassador would stop by New Delhi, where she will “continue her work on the advancement of the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue on Women's Empowerment,” officials said.

They added that the Strategic Dialogue, which was kicked off earlier this year in Washington, had led to an unprecedented focus on women’s empowerment in the history of the U.S.-India relationship.

With this backdrop, Ms. Verveer is also scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the Asia Women's Leadership Regional Summit, an event that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed organising during her visit to India in 2009.

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