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May 14, 2013 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONMay 14, 2013 | By Katrina Lantos Swett The following was published in the Washington Post, On Faith on May 14, 2013. Fifteen years ago, on May 14, 1998, U.S. House of Representatives voted in…
Jun 26, 2013 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONJune 26, 2013 |By Katrina Lantos Swett Editor"s note: Katrina Lantos Swett is the chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The views expressed are the writer"s own. The…
Jul 25, 2013 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONJuly 24, 2013 | By Katrina Lantos Swett and Mary Ann Glendon The following appeared in CNN World/GPS on July 23rd, 2013. Editor"s note: Katrina Lantos Swett is chairwoman of the U.S. Commission…
Aug 22, 2013 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONAugust 21, 2013 | By Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett The following op-ed appeared in The Washington Post on August 21, 2013. Although religious freedom is a pivotal human right,…
Dec 3, 2013 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONDecember 2, 2013 | By Robert P. George The following op-ed appeared in the Providence Journal on November 30, 2013. Washington - As the nation celebrates Thanksgiving, Jewish Americans are also…
Dec 11, 2013 FOR YOUR INFORMATION December 11, 2013 | By Katrina Lantos Swett and Mary Ann Glendon The following op-ed appeared in Reuters & the Chicago Tribune on December 10, 2013. December 10 marks Human Rights Day,…
Jan 28, 2014 FOR YOUR INFORMATION January 27, 2014 | By  Robert P. George    The following op-ed appeared in  The Hill  on January 27, 2014. I testified before the Congressional Tom Lantos Human…
Jul 30, 2014 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONJuly 30, 2014 | By Katrina Lantos Swett and M. Zuhdi Jasser The following op-ed appeared on RNS on July 29, 2014.  This op-ed also appeared in the Washington Post. While last month marked the…
Feb 26, 2015 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONFebruary 26, 2015 | By Katrina Lantos Swett & Robert P. George The following op-ed appeared in Al Jazeera America on February 26, 2015.   By all accounts, the past year in China…
Jul 6, 2015 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONJuly 6, 2015 | Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett The following op-ed appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on July 5, 2015 Today, July 6, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, a modern-day exemplar of…
Sep 28, 2015 FOR YOUR INFORMATION September 28, 2015 | Daniel I. Mark and Katrina Lantos Swett The following op-ed appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on September 27, 2015 Washington hosted two dramatically…
Dec 10, 2015 FOR YOUR INFORMATIONDecember 10, 2015 | Mary Ann Glendon and Katrina Lantos Swett The following op-ed appeared in The National Interest on December 10, 2015 December 10 marks Human Rights Day, the sixty-seventh…
Feb 19, 2016 FOR YOUR INFORMATION February 19, 2016 | Thomas J. Reese and Mary Ann Glendon The following op-ed appeared in the America Magazine on February 19, 2016   Religion in Vietnam today looks markedly…
Aug 25, 2016 FOR YOUR INFORMATION August 25, 2016 | Kristina Arriaga and Rev. Thomas J. Reese, S.J. The following op/ed appeared in The Hill on August 25, 2016.   Many men, women, and children each year…
Aug 30, 2016 FOR YOUR INFORMATION August 30, 2016 | Daniel I. Mark and Sandra Jolley The following op/ed appeared in Religion News Service on August 30, 2016   (RNS) Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was a 6-year-old boy when he…
Dec 9, 2016 The following op-ed appeared in Religion New Service on December 9, 2016 By former USCIRF Commissioners Kristina Arriaga and John Ruskay   Pwint Phyu Latt is a Muslim peace activist in Burma who sought to…
Oct 12, 2017 The following op-ed appeared in Huffington Post on October 12, 2017 By former Commissioner Tenzin Dorjee and Congressman Jim Mcgovern   Imagine you are a 6-year-old. Your world is your family, friends…
Nov 1, 2017 The following op-ed appeared in The Diplomat on November 1, 2017   By former Commissioners Sandra Jolley and Tenzin Dorjee   As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to travel to China in early…
Nov 16, 2017 The following originally op-ed appeared in The Hill on November 16, 2017   By former USCIRF Commissioners Daniel Mark and Sandra Jolley   People love lists. And when those lists are in the news,…
Jul 8, 2019 This op-ed was originally published by The Hill on July 5, 2019. By Gary Bauer and Tenzin Dorjee In a country where as many as 2 million Uighurs and other Muslims are imprisoned in concentration…
Apr 24, 2020 This op-ed originally appeared in The Hill on Friday, April 24, 2020. This op-ed was also published in Vietnamese by the Nguoi Viet Daily News on Thursday, April 30, 2020.  By USCIRF Commissioner…
May 5, 2020 This op-ed originally appeared by Washington Examiner on Tuesday, May 5, 2020.  By USCIRF Commissioners Gary Bauer and Tenzin Dorjee The International Olympic Committee and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo…
Jun 4, 2020 This op-ed was originally published by Deseret News, on June 4, 2020. By USCIRF Chair Tony Perkins and Vice Chair Gayle Manchin   Sitting across the table from Sudan’s new prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, in…
Jun 8, 2020 This op-ed was originally published by TIME, on June 8, 2020. By USCIRF Commissioner Nury Turkel   On May 28, after years of hard work and dedication, the House of Representatives passed the historic Uyghur…
Jun 16, 2020 This op-ed was originally published by Fox News, on June 16, 2020. By USCIRF Commissioners Gary Bauer and Nury Turkel During the first few months of 2020, Chinese authorities reportedly shut down at least 48…
Jun 24, 2020 This op-ed originally appeared on The Hill, on June 24, 2020.  By USCIRF Commissioners Nury Turkel and Gary Bauer For most people, traveling abroad can lead to exciting opportunities and exposure to…
Jul 20, 2020 This op-ed was originally published by The Washington Examiner, on July 20, 2020. By USCIRF Chair Gayle Manchin and USCIRF Vice Chair Tony Perkins In Iraq, the 50th Brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces has…
Aug 20, 2020 This op-ed originally appeared in The Hill, on August 20, 2020. By USCIRF Commissioner James W. Carr and Congressman Glenn Grothman Around the world, nations want to emulate the West in general, and the United…
Aug 26, 2020 This op-ed was originally published by The Diplomat, on August 26, 2020. By USCIRF Commissioners Nury Turkel and James W. Carr   Face masks have become ubiquitous as the world continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, as the…
Jan 20, 2021 This op-ed was originally published by the New York Times on January 20, 2021.  Written by USCIRF Commissioner Nury Turkel.   Forced labor has been a central part of China’s campaign against the Uighurs…
Apr 12, 2021 This op-ed was originally published by the Wall Street Journal, on April 11, 2021. By USCIRF Chair Gayle Manchin and Vice Chair Tony Perkins Read full article
Mar 8, 2022 This op-ed was originally published by Newsweek on March 8, 2022. By USCIRF Commissioners Anurima Bhargava and Tony Perkins Gulmira Imin is a Uyghur Muslim in China, former administrator of the Uyghur-language…
Apr 16, 2022 This op-ed was originally published by USA Today on April 16, 2022. By USCIRF Commissioners Jim Carr and Fred Davie The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has long advocated for the…
Apr 25, 2022 This op-ed was originally published by The Hill on April 25, 2022. By USCIRF Chair Nadine Maenza and Vice Chair Nury Turkel As the world is trying to resume some semblance of normalcy, it is abundantly clear that…
Aug 21, 2022 This op-ed was originally published by Fox News on August 21, 2022. By USCIRF Commissioner Frank R. Wolf I have been inside a Chinese prison, and it is grim to say the least. The imprisonment of 90-year-old…
May 3, 2023 This op-ed was originally published by Religion News Service on May 3, 2023. By USCIRF Chair Nury Turkel & Vice Chair Abraham Cooper Denying religious freedom and women’s rights go hand-in-hand. Over the…
Oct 3, 2023 This op-ed was originally published by The Hill on October 2, 2023. By USCIRF Vice Chair Frederick A. Davie and Commissioner Frank Wolf The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) engages in nefarious transnational…