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Spotlight
1/14/16 |
Compulsory Religious Education in Turkey: A Survey and Assessment of Textbooks
10/23/15 |
Reporting on Religious Persecution: A Global Challenge
4/27/15 |
USCIRF 2015 Annual Report
2/3/15 |
...on Nigeria's upcoming elections
Policy Briefs and Focuses
6/22/18 |
Country Update: Sudan - June 2018
5/17/18 |
Policy Focus: Women and Religious Freedom - May 2018
4/13/18 |
Country Update - Burma: April 2018
11/9/17 |
Policy Update: Sudan-The Shrinking Space for and Increasing Persecution of Christians
Factsheets
1/15/15 |
January 2015 Factsheet: Religious Freedom and Nigeria's 2015 Elections
9/4/14 |
September 2014 Factsheet: Burma: USCIRF Examines Religious Freedom Violations During Fact-finding Trip to Burma
8/12/14 |
August 2014 Factsheet: Pakistan: Violence Towards Religious Communities in Pakistan
11/25/13 |
November 2013 Factsheet: Central African Republic: Increasing Sectarianism and Violence in the Central African Republic
Special Reports
5/17/18 |
Study Revealed Numerous Passages in Saudi Textbooks Advocating Intolerance and Violence
2/12/18 |
Inventing Extremists: The Impact of Russian Anti-Extremism Policies on Freedom of Religion or Belief
9/21/17 |
A Right for All: Freedom of Religion or Belief in ASEAN
9/20/17 |
Selected Blasphemy Cases
Perspectives
3/27/14 |
Pakistan Leads the World in Blasphemy Prisoners
3/14/14 |
Why human rights sanctions could work with Iran
1/27/14 |
A State of Denial: Religious Freedom in Egypt
10/29/13 |
Time for Renewal of Religious Independence in Uzbekistan
Human Rights Documents
11/10/14 |
Charter for Freedom of Religion of Belief
9/14/10 |
International Human Rights Standards: Selected Provisions on Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion or Belief
