USCIRF Spotlight Podcast

Welcome to a new weekly podcast series called “USCIRF Spotlight” hosted by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body.

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Responses to Genocide: Two Former U.S. Officials Reflect on ISIS’s Genocide in Iraq and Syria

Posted August 9, 202400:33:32

Ten years ago, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a campaign of mass atrocities to achieve the religious and ethnic...

10 Years On: Ongoing Threats to Religious Minority Survivors of ISIS’s Genocide

Posted August 2, 202400:28:28

Ten years ago, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a campaign of mass atrocities to achieve the religious and ethnic...

The Religious Garb Ban that Undermines the Olympic Spirit

Posted July 25, 202400:20:21

The French government has prohibited French athletes from wearing religious garb while competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics. As such, French athletes...

USCIRF's Spirit of Bipartisanship

Posted July 3, 202400:17:37

In 1998, Republicans and Democrats came together to pass the International Religious Freedom Act, creating USCIRF as an independent government Commission...

Shortcomings of the State Department’s CPC Designations

Posted January 25, 202400:31:16

One of USCIRF’s key functions is to make recommendations to the State Department about which countries we think should be designated as Countries...