Meeting

In-Person DC Roundtable: A Conversation With Dafna Rand, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Speaker
Dafna H. Rand

Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State

Presider
Linda Robinson

Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

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