Файл:Report of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2006) 1.pdf

English: This annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom provides a comprehensive review of the Commission’s activities—its findings, recommendations, and achievements—during the past year to promote the universal right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief. This report describes conditions for religious freedom and inter-related human rights in the countries of concern to the Commission, highlights key findings, reports on the actions the Commission has taken to raise the public’s awareness of persistent religious freedom violations, refers to the Commission’s efforts to keep Congress informed of religious freedom conditions throughout the world, and presents the Commission’s U.S. policy recommendations to ensure that the promotion of freedom of religion or belief becomes a more integral part of U.S. foreign policy. In the seven years of its operation, many of the Commission’s recommendations concerning countries which violate international norms of freedom of religion or belief have been implemented by the President, the State Department, and Congress, and have had a significant impact on the protection of human rights, including religious freedom, in those countries.