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US State Department Eliminates Religious Freedom Section from Its Human Rights Reports

Jun 11th, 2012 | By
US State Department Eliminates Religious Freedom Section from Its Human Rights Reports

For the first time since the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in 1998, the State Department has chosen to eliminate the section on religious freedom in its report to the commission. In its place it referred to the 2010 International Religious Freedom Report. The State Department also removed sections covering religious freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights that it released on May 24, a full three months past the deadline Congress set for the release of these reports. It has not gone unnoticed that the human rights reports,
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