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Commissioners with Interior Ministry and Human

Rights Commission officials, Saudi Arabia

Policy and Research Department

Knox Thames, Acting Executive Director

Dwight Bashir, Associate Director for Policy and Research

Elizabeth K. Cassidy, Associate Director for Policy and Research

Catherine Cosman
Scott Flipse

Bridget Kustin
Tiffany Lynch

Steve Snow

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Countries of Particular Concern

Country Watch List

Sudan: Policy Recommendations by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (February 2009)

Report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on Iraq (December 2008)

A Prison Without Bars: Refugee and Defector Testimonies of Severe Violations of Freedom of Religion or Belief in North Korea (March 2008)

Full report (pdf 1.16 MB)

Text-only version for faster download (coming soon)
Korean-language version (pdf 2 MB)

Challenge to Civil Society: Russia's Amended Law on Noncommercial Organizations (March 2007)
Russian-language version

Report on Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal - Report Card Two Years Later (February 2007)
Report on Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal (February 2005)

Iraq's Permanent Constitution: Analysis & Recommendations
March 2006 Revision
September 2005 Draft

"Thank you, Father Kim Il Sung": Eyewitness Accounts of Severe Violations of Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion in North Korea (November 2005)
Full report (pdf1.7 MB)
Text-only version for faster download (pdf 672 KB)
Korean-language version (pdf 1.03 MB)
The Religion-State Relationship and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Predominantly Muslim Countries (March 2005)