The State Department is undergoing restructuring, including office eliminations and staff reductions (RIF). Focus shifts to foreign policy priorities, impacting global affairs and civil rights divisions. Voluntary retirement incentives are being explored.
In a Sept. 5 Intelligence and National Security Foundation webinar focused on development of the intelligence community’s workforce, Kyzer spoke with representatives from the government, private and non-governmental sectors who agreed that the future of that workforce will increasingly promote STEM expertise, workers from underrepresented backgrounds and more transitions between the public and private sectors.
On Friday, a joint statement organized by Lithuania and signed by 36 countries was presented at a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, accusing Georgian security forces of violence against peaceful protesters and urging the cancellation of the foreign agent law, which it said would have a “chilling effect” on media outlets and NGOs.
