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The @RFInstitute Middle East Action Team is working to promote religious freedom for everyone across the region.

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032 | Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom by @KnoxThames

https://t.co/buVa589Kyb

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With an election coming in the UK, religious freedom policy should be a priority issue.
At its core, religious freedom is about liberty and human dignity. It is an important foundation for flourishing societies.
Miles Windsor (@RFInstitute) @Newsweek:
https://t.co/6H9zADblvT

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NEW ARTICLE: "@USCIRF Releases 25th Annual Report on International Religious Freedom" by @jaybark7 @RFIMiddleEast highlighting key aspects of the report, including a "worrisome trajectory of religious freedom conditions" globally. READ: https://t.co/tZoMAu9Po8

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In addition to recommendations for CPC and SWL countries, the USCIRF annual report also notes the trajectory of religious freedom in key countries.

As @nadinemaenza (@IrfSecretariat) notes this year, conditions worsened in 10, stayed same in 18, and improved in only 1.

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Earlier this week @USCIRF released its 25th annual report covering religious freedom in key countries and providing recommendations for @POTUS and @StateDept on steps to take to advance religious freedom.

Read more from @jaybark7 (@RFInstitute):

https://t.co/3s7HehSMxj

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🎧Listen back to @NottsPolitics' @jaklocek' discussion with @RFIMiddleEast on political transitions and religious discrimination ⤵️

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031 | Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings | On this episode, @jaklocek (@NottsPolitics) and @jaybark7 discuss a recent @JPR_journal article looking at how political turmoil impacts religious discrimination.

Listen here:
https://t.co/V8jZGzSzUR

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...Of all human rights concerns, religious freedom has been one of the most battered and bruised, misunderstood, marginalised and mishandled [...]
However, at its core [...] religious freedom is entirely about the contest for freedom and human dignity."

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"The Bruce Bill, if passed, represents a significant victory for those who’ve been fighting this cause throughout many years," Miles Windsor writing on the International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill in debate @UKParliament today. | @UK_FoRBEnvoy

https://t.co/BCN5rPgCJm

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030 of the Middle East File features Samirah Majumdar (@PewReligion) and @jaybark7 discussing key findings in @pewresearch annual report on global religious restrictions. Gov. restrictions are at the highest level recorded in 14 years.

https://t.co/o0iTTpvrE0 #religiousfreedom

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030 | Findings from @pewresearch 14th annual Global Restrictions on Religion research with Samirah Majumdar @PewReligion and @jaybark7 @RFInstitute

Listen here and most major podcast platforms:

https://t.co/o0iTTpvrE0

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029 | More than “Ink on Paper”: Taking Stock Three Years After the Adoption of the Yazidi [Female] Survivors Law | Mairéad Smith (@c4jrOrg)

Listen here to the latest episode of the Middle East File w/ @jaybark7

https://t.co/RIxZlrot1o #Iraq #Yazidi #genocide #ReligiousFreedom

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For more read the policy brief: Protection from violence against women in forced displacement: Integrating religion into intersectional and socioecological approaches https://t.co/H3yiiHbIXz

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027 | Protection from Violence Against Women in Forced Displacement: Integrating Religion with @sandrapertek. We discuss how religion can be both a vulnerability factor and a source of resilience in crises, both is far too often overlooked.

https://t.co/9p6XoqS8Rp @RFInstitute

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“Where do we want to take freedom of religion or belief in Lebanon? What is the current state? We realized we don’t have a founding document, a Lebanon produced report covering these topics”

Hear more about the National Working Group on FoRB with @fadi_hachem

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026 | National Report on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Lebanon | @fadi_hachem with @jaybark7 @RFInstitute

The Middle East File is back and this episode is looking at a report on the status and opportunities for religious freedom in Lebanon:

https://t.co/RrQ4FtCY0b

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026 | National Report on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Lebanon | @fadi_hachem with @jaybark7 @RFInstitute

The Middle East File is back and this episode is looking at a report on the status and opportunities for religious freedom in Lebanon:

https://t.co/RrQ4FtCY0b

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RFI's @jaybark7 quoted in @CTmagazine piece, "The Fight for International Religious Freedom Goes Mainstream" @IRFSummit https://t.co/Hy8834VsIg

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We were pleased to facilitate a private tour of the powerful @NbdyListeningVR exhibit for @RFInstitute students, fellows, and colleagues hosted at @USIP. It tells in a heart wrenching way the realities of the genocide that unfolded in Iraq in 2014 whose impacts continue today.