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New International Religious Freedom Report

Want to know about the state of Religious Freedom around the globe? The State Department has just published the International Religious Freedom Report for 2015 . The Report begins its discussion of Religious Freedom around the world with a powerful story: Executive Summary from the Religious Freedom Report: March 19 began as an ordinary day for 27-year old Farkhunda Malikzada. Farkhunda lived in ...

By U.S. Embassy in Oman | 11 August, 2016 | Topics: Human Rights, Official Reports, Press Releases, Reports | Tags: human rights, Religious Freedom, Reports

Kerry Announces TIP Report

“If there is a single theme to this year’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report , it is the conviction that there is nothing inevitable about trafficking in human beings. That conviction is where the process of change really begins—with the realization that just because a certain abuse has taken place in the past doesn’t mean that we have to tolerate ...

By U.S. Embassy in Oman | 4 June, 2016 | Topics: Human Rights, Official Reports | Tags: human rights, report, secretary kerry