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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
11/29/18 |
Religious Freedom and Related Human Rights in North Korea
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
Factsheets
3/19/19 |
March 2019 Legislation Factsheet: Anti-Extremism Laws
1/7/19 |
January 2019 Legislation Factsheet: Registration Laws
12/13/18 |
December 2018 Legislation Factsheet: Conversion Laws
12/3/18 |
December 2018 Legislation Factsheet: Blasphemy
Special Reports
2/15/19 |
Central Nigeria: Overcoming Dangerous Speech and Endemic Religious Divides
12/10/18 |
Limitations on Minorities' Religious Freedom in South Asia
11/26/18 |
A Survey of 2017-2018 Saudi Middle and High School Textbooks
5/17/18 |
Study Revealed Numerous Passages in Saudi Textbooks Advocating Intolerance and Violence
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
