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• Challenge to Civil Society: Russia's Amended Law on Noncommercial Organizations (March 2007)
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• Report on Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal - Report Card Two Years Later (February 2007) 
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• Iraq's Permanent Constitution: Analysis & Recommendations
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• A Prison Without Bars: Refugee and Defector Testimonies of Severe Violations of Freedom of Religion or Belief in North Korea (March 2008)

• "Thank you, Father Kim Il Sung": Eyewitness Accounts of Severe Violations of Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion in North Korea (November 2005)
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• The Religion-State Relationship and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Predominantly Muslim Countries (March 2005)
  
  

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