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Center for Research on Globalization
February 28, 2018
This founding document guarantees constitutional protection of basic political rights, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the .... The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, ahead of Cuba, El Salvador, Turkmenistan, the Russian Federation and Thailand.
Chicago Sun-Times
February 18, 2018
That list — aimed at promoting religious freedom, according to the U.S. government — was recently released and includes American ally Saudi Arabia as well as China, Iran, Turkmenistan and North Korea. Perhaps of particular interest in the Chicago area, where there's a sizable Pakistani-American ...
The Pilot
February 7, 2018
As if to illustrate his point, the State Department around the same time released its yearly list of countries guilty of "egregious" religious freedom offenses--Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Pakistan was placed on a "special watch list.
Arlington Catholic Herald
February 5, 2018
As if to illustrate his point, the State Department around the same time released its yearly list of countries guilty of “egregious” religious freedom offenses — Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Pakistan was placed on a “special watch list.
Angelus News
February 1, 2018
As if to illustrate his point, the State Department around the same time released its yearly list of countries guilty of “egregious” religious freedom offenses—Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Pakistan was placed on a “special watch list.
ChristianityToday.com
January 24, 2018
The chamber voted 50–49—calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day—to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF).
Big Think (blog)
January 7, 2018
In 2017, “Countries of Concern” were Burma — odd, since Burma doesn't exist any more, having been renamed “Myanmar” — China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. While the list is always interesting, one wonders if the U.S. itself is in danger of ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
January 4, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department has singled out Pakistan, Iran, and three Central Asian countries for policies violating religious freedom. In a statement on January 4, the State Department said Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were among a group of 10 nations redesignated as ...
Forum 18
October 4, 2017
These violations of freedom of religion or belief come as religious communities that want to gain legal status once more subject themselves to another ... Jehovah's Witnesses – are publicly vilified (see Forum 18's Turkmenistan religious freedom survey http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2244).
Foreign Affairs
August 24, 2017
In its quest to protect freedom of religion, the USCIRF is championing the rights of groups that aspire to impose religious coercion on others. ... of the Muslim-majority, ex-Soviet states of the Caucasus and Central Asia—Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
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