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Factsheet: Shari'a and LGBTI Persons
Factsheet on Shari’a and LGBTI Persons – In some countries around the world, criminal laws provide for the death penalty based on religious interpretations. This factsheet highlights countries with death penalty laws that target the LGBTI community…
Governments Using Shari’a to Impose Death Sentences on LGBTI Persons
Mar 26, 2021 In some countries around the world, religion-based laws are used by governments to impose capital punishment against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons. All of the 10 countries…
USCIRF Releases 2021 Annual Report with Recommendations for U.S. Policy
Apr 21, 2021 USCIRF Releases 2021 Annual Report with Recommendations for U.S. Policy No Longer Recommends Three Countries for Special Watch List Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom…
USCIRF Conversation on the Exodus of Religious Minority Communities in Afghanistan
Jun 30 WHEN: Jun 30th 3:00pm - Jun 30th 4:00pm…
USCIRF Calls on the State Department to Prioritize Refugee Resettlement of Afghan Religious Minorities
Aug 23, 2021 USCIRF Calls on the State Department to Prioritize Refugee Resettlement of Afghan Religious Minorities Encourages Expansion of U.S. Refugee Admissions Program Priority 2 Designation   Washington, DC – The U.S…
USCIRF Hearing: Strategies for Religious Freedom in Fragile States
Sep 22 WHEN: Sep 22nd 10:30am - Sep 22nd 12:00pm…
Hazara Community Threatened in Afghanistan
Sep 17, 2021 When Afghanistan was under Taliban control in 1996-2001, the Taliban discriminated against and violently persecuted the Hazara Shi’a community—which they labeled as “heretical.” Subsequently, the Hazara community…
USCIRF Strongly Condemns Terrorist Attacks on Shi’a Mosques in Afghanistan
Oct 15, 2021 USCIRF Strongly Condemns Terrorist Attacks on Shi’a Mosques in Afghanistan Reiterates Call for State Department to Include Afghan Religious Minorities in U.S. Refugee Admissions Program Priority 2 Designation…
Afghanistan Factsheet
This report catalogues deteriorating religious freedom conditions in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the country on August 15, 2021. Afghans who do not adhere to the Taliban’s harsh and strict interpretation of Islam, as well as those who…
USCIRF Releases New Report on Religious Minorities in Afghanistan
Oct 28, 2021 USCIRF Releases New Report on Religious Minorities in Afghanistan Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report: Afghanistan…