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Global Human Rights: International Religious Freedom Policy (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Aug. 13, 2024
Report Number IF10803
Report Type In Focus
Authors Michael A. Weber
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

For decades, U.S. policymakers have sought to promote religious freedom abroad, reflective both of a general interest in promoting human rights through U.S. foreign policy, as well as the emphasis on religious freedom in U.S. domestic law and political culture. Protection of religious freedom is also affirmed in international law through the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other instruments. Congress has sought to ensure continued support for religious freedom as a focus of U.S. relations with other nations, most prominently through passage of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.