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International Religious Freedom Report 2019
June 13 , 2020
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- Recently, the US State Department has released this annual report.
- The report is a survey of the state of religious freedom across the world.
- The IRF report listed countries for positive developments in religious freedom and negative examples.
- Nicaragua, Nigeria and China were cited as negative examples.
- It published a report i.e. the country report for India to highlight the issue of religious freedom in the country.
- Earlier, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF report) downgraded India’s religious freedom to the lowest grade — in the ‘Country of Particular Concern (CPC)’ category.
- It highlighted the developments that took place in 2019 i.e. the status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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