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International Religious Freedom
2008
 - Preface, Introduction, and Executive Summary
 - Africa
 - East Asia and Pacific
 - Europe and Eurasia
 - Near East and North Africa
 - South and Central Asia
 - Western Hemisphere
 - Appendices
 - Related Material
  

2008 Report on International Religious Freedom

Preface, Introduction, and Executive Summary
--  Preface
--  Introduction
--  Executive Summary

Africa
--  Angola
--  Benin
--  Botswana
--  Burkina Faso
--  Burundi
--  Cameroon
--  Cape Verde
--  Central African Republic
--  Chad
--  Comoros
--  Congo, Democratic Republic of the
--  Congo, Republic of the
--  Cote d'Ivoire 
--  Djibouti
--  Equatorial Guinea
--  Eritrea
--  Ethiopia
--  Gabon
--  Gambia, The
--  Ghana
--  Guinea
--  Guinea-Bissau
--  Kenya
--  Lesotho
--  Liberia
--  Madagascar
--  Malawi
--  Mali
--  Mauritania
--  Mauritius
--  Mozambique
--  Namibia
--  Niger
--  Nigeria
--  Rwanda
--  Sao Tome and Principe
--  Senegal
--  Seychelles
--  Sierra Leone
--  Somalia
--  South Africa
--  Sudan
--  Swaziland
--  Tanzania
--  Togo
--  Uganda
--  Zambia
--  Zimbabwe

East Asia and Pacific
--  Australia
--  Brunei
--  Burma
--  Cambodia
--  China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau) 
--  Taiwan
--  Fiji
--  Indonesia
--  Japan
--  Kiribati
--  Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
--  Korea, Republic of
--  Laos
--  Malaysia
--  Marshall Islands
--  Micronesia, Federated States of
--  Mongolia
--  Nauru
--  New Zealand
--  Palau
--  Papua New Guinea
--  Philippines
--  Samoa
--  Singapore
--  Solomon Islands
--  Thailand
--  Timor-Leste
--  Tonga
--  Tuvalu
--  Vanuatu
--  Vietnam

Europe and Eurasia
--  Albania
--  Andorra
--  Armenia
--  Austria
--  Azerbaijan
--  Belarus
--  Belgium
--  Bosnia and Herzegovina
--  Bulgaria
--  Croatia
--  Cyprus
--  Czech Republic
--  Denmark
--  Estonia
--  Finland
--  France
--  Georgia
--  Germany
--  Greece
--  Hungary
--  Iceland
--  Ireland
--  Italy
--  Kosovo
--  Latvia
--  Liechtenstein
--  Lithuania
--  Luxembourg
--  Macedonia
--  Malta
--  Moldova
--  Monaco
--  Montenegro
--  Netherlands
--  Norway
--  Poland
--  Portugal
--  Romania
--  Russia
--  San Marino
--  Serbia
--  Slovak Republic
--  Slovenia
--  Spain
--  Sweden
--  Switzerland
--  Turkey
--  Ukraine
--  United Kingdom

Near East and North Africa
--  Algeria
--  Bahrain
--  Egypt
--  Iran
--  Iraq
--  Israel and the occupied territories
--  Jordan
--  Kuwait
--  Lebanon
--  Libya
--  Morocco
--  Western Sahara
--  Oman
--  Qatar
--  Saudi Arabia
--  Syria
--  Tunisia
--  United Arab Emirates
--  Yemen

South and Central Asia
--  Afghanistan
--  Bangladesh
--  Bhutan
--  India
--  Kazakhstan
--  Kyrgyz Republic
--  Maldives
--  Nepal
--  Pakistan
--  Sri Lanka
--  Tajikistan
--  Turkmenistan
--  Uzbekistan

Western Hemisphere
--  Antigua and Barbuda
--  Argentina
--  Bahamas
--  Barbados
--  Belize
--  Bolivia
--  Brazil
--  Canada
--  Chile
--  Colombia
--  Costa Rica
--  Cuba
--  Dominica
--  Dominican Republic
--  Ecuador
--  El Salvador
--  Grenada
--  Guatemala
--  Guyana
--  Haiti
--  Honduras
--  Jamaica
--  Mexico
--  Nicaragua
--  Panama
--  Paraguay
--  Peru
--  St. Kitts and Nevis
--  St. Lucia
--  St. Vincent and the Grenadines
--  Suriname
--  Trinidad and Tobago
--  Uruguay
--  Venezuela

Appendices
--  Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
--  Appendix B: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
--  Appendix C - The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
--  Appendix D - Regional Organizations' Religious Freedom Commitments
--  Appendix E - Training at the Foreign Service Institute Related to the International Religious Freedom Act
--  Appendix F - Department of Homeland Security and the International Religious Freedom Act
--  Appendix G - Overview of U.S. Refugee Policy

Related Material
--09/19/08  Ambassador Hanford's Special Briefing on Release of 2008 International Religious Freedom Report; John V. Hanford III, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom; Washington, DC
--09/19/08  Secretary Rice's Remarks on the Release of the Annual Report on International Religous Freedom; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Washington, DC

  
Highlights
The International Religious Freedom report is submitted to Congress annually by the Department of State in compliance with Section 102(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. This report supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide.
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