Source: www.uscirf.gov
Date: June 16, 2020
Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report:
Pakistan Policy Update - In its 2020 Annual Report, USCIRF recommended that the U.S. government enter into a binding agreement with Pakistan as authorized under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). Such an agreement with defined benchmarks could provide Pakistan a path toward no longer being designated by the State Department as a “country of particular concern”. This policy update discusses the usefulness of an IRFA binding agreement and highlights substantive issues that an agreement should address in order to protect religious freedom, especially for the country’s religious minorities.
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