[…] "And it should be a matter that the government of Burma wants to see its people receive the help that is available to them," she says. The United States and other nations, the United Nations, international relief agencies and nongovernmental organizations are prepared to bring considerable resources to the victims of Burma's Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath, Henrietta Fore, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said May 8 at a Washington briefing.

[…] The foundation of good foreign policy is good relations with your neighbors. A peaceful and secure neighborhood is in the interest of the United States of America. And so I want to talk to you about the hemisphere we share, the challenges we face, and the aggressive work that the United States is doing to help make the Americas a place of hope and liberty. In recent decades, there have been positive developments in Latin America. Countries have moved away from an era of dictatorships, era of civil strife.

[…] Cyclone Nargis struck Burma's Irrawaddy delta region May 3, and has left at least 22,464 people dead and thousands more missing or believed dead, according to state-run radio May 6.
The United Nations has said that, based on satellite images, the storm's damage has affected an area of about 11,600 square miles (30,000 square kilometers) along the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Martaban coastlines.
Many of the places are remote and difficult to reach.

[…] “Each of your institutions has an important role to play in the future of the world’s youth, particularly in countries where young people are searching for alternatives to the lure of violent extremism. Together, we can unleash a combined power to counter the purveyors of hate, to give young people hope, and to lift up impoverished communities around the globe,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said April 30, the second day of the Higher Education Summit for Global Development.

[…] Today we talked in depth with Dr. Rice about all issues, the final status issues, Jerusalem, settlements, refugees, water and prisoners. And we reiterated that the Roadmap and the Arab Peace Initiative and the vision of President Bush and all international resolutions form the basis for the solution of these cases in order to end occupation -- Israeli occupation that started in 1967, and the establishment of a Palestinian state, an independent state, and Jerusalem as its capital alongside the State of Israel.

[…] Citing the Burmese military junta’s continued defiance of its citizens and the international community in the run-up to the May 10 constitutional referendum, President Bush expanded economic sanctions against Burma to include freezing U.S. assets of all state-owned corporations. In moving forward with plans for a deeply flawed constitutional referendum, Burmese leader Than Shwe and his regime “are ensuring that the referendum vote … will not be free, fair, or credible,” Bush said in a May 1 statement.

[…] May 3 marks World Press Freedom Day. We stand with journalists, editors, and bloggers who continue their work in spite of the risks. We call on all governments to guarantee the inalienable rights of their people, including, consistent with Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right to freedom of speech and the press. During Fiscal Year 2007, the United States provided $78 million in approximately 40 countries to promote media freedom and freedom of information.

[…] Without state sponsors, terrorist groups would have far greater difficulty finding the funds, weapons and explosives, safe havens and recruits they need to plan and conduct acts of violence against others.

[…] “Working with allies and partners across the world, we've created a less permissive operating environment for terrorists, kept leaders on the move or in hiding and degraded their ability to plan and mount attacks,” said State Department counterterrorism coordinator Dell Dailey upon the April 30 release of Country Reports on Terrorism 2007.

[…] There are two of the co-chairs who are not able to join us, but I would like to acknowledge the work of Sandy Weill and Lester Crown as well. And I would like very much to welcome several members of the business community who have met with us to talk about the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership and the important work that this partnership can do to help sustain the momentum toward peace in the Middle East.

[…] There is no single way to solve the problem of the exploitation of children as child soldiers, according to Rachel Stohl, senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information, a Washington-based policy research organization. Stohl is also on the steering committee for the U.S. Campaign to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, which includes some 40 national U.S. organizations working to influence U.S. policy on child soldiers.

[…] Hallmark Cards, the world's largest greeting card company, has partnered with rock star Bono and activist lawyer Bobby Shriver to raise funds to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa. In joining the (Product) Red campaign, which features collections of cause-oriented products also identified as “Red,” Kansas City, Missouri-based Hallmark in October 2007 embarked on the company's largest social-impact initiative in its history.