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USCIRF at TLHRC Hearing: Mass Atrocities Prevention
Feb 06 WHEN: Feb 6th 10:30am…
USCIRF at House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing: Review of the U.S. Government’s Role in Protecting International Religious Freedom
Oct 11 WHEN: Oct 11th 10:00am…
USCIRF at TLHRC Hearing: "Freedom of Belief: Countering Religious Violence"
May 24 WHEN: May 24th 2:00pm…
USCIRF Calls for U.S. Government to Support Iraq’s Religious Communities on Anniversary of Genocide Determination
Mar 18, 2024 USCIRF Calls for U.S. Government to Support Iraq’s Religious Communities on Anniversary of Genocide Determination Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) solemnly marks the eighth…
USCIRF Releases 2024 Annual Report with New Recommendations for U.S. Policy
May 1, 2024 USCIRF Releases 2024 Annual Report with New Recommendations for U.S. Policy Highlights State of Religious Freedom Abroad after 25 Years of IRFA Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today…
2024 Annual Report
Highlights from USCIRF’s 2024 Annual Report Numbers-at-a-Glance 17 countries recommended for “country of particular concern” (CPC) designation 1 new country recommended for CPC designation 11 countries recommended for the State Department’s “Special…
10 Years On: Ongoing Threats to Religious Minority Survivors of ISIS’s Genocide
Aug 2, 2024 Ten years ago, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a campaign of mass atrocities to achieve the religious and ethnic cleansing of Yazidis, Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac Christians, Shi’a and Sunni Muslim Turkmens,…
USCIRF Solemnly Commemorates the Tenth Anniversary of ISIS’s Genocide Against Iraqi and Syrian Religious Minorities
Aug 2, 2024 USCIRF Solemnly Commemorates the Tenth Anniversary of ISIS’s Genocide Against Iraqi and Syrian Religious Minorities Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) this week commemorates the…
Responses to Genocide: Two Former U.S. Officials Reflect on ISIS’s Genocide in Iraq and Syria
Aug 9, 2024 Ten years ago, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a campaign of mass atrocities to achieve the religious and ethnic cleansing of religious minority groups in Iraq and Syria. In 2016, the U.S. State Department…
Religious Freedom Challenges in Iraq 10 Years after ISIS’s Genocide
This report provides an overview of ISIS’s genocide and other crimes against Iraq’s religious minorities beginning in the summer 2014. ISIS used mass execution, forced conversion to Islam, abduction, rape, and slavery against Iraqi and Syrian Yazidis;…