Commissioners with activists in Bangladesh, Spring 2006
Commissioners with Interior Ministry and Human Rights Commission officials, Saudi Arabia, Summer 2007
Commissioners briefed President George W. Bush and his staff, including National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley and Chief of Staff Andrew Card on Iraq and Saudi Arabia in February 2005
Commissioners at a USCIRF public hearing on Burma, December 2007
Commissioners at a USCIRF public hearing on Iran, February 2008
A Commission delegation meets with internally displaced people at a refugee camp outside Darfur, Sudan, 2006
Commissioners meet with Muslim religious leaders, Turkmenistan, August 2007
Commissioners with Harry Wu, Dr. Yang Jianli, Rebiya
Kadeer, and Wei Jingsheng at a USCIRF/CHRC press conference: "Nine Days Before the Beijing
Olympics: Human Rights and Religious Freedom Concerns Beyond the Games."
The USCIRF delegation meets with government officials in Vietnam, Fall 2007
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom shall have as its primary responsibility the annual and ongoing review of the facts and circumstances of violations of religious freedom and the making of policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress with respect to matters involving international religious freedom.
"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes the freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."
"Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice, and teaching."
