USCIRF Spotlight Podcast

Recent Episodes

Ahmadiyya Muslims Face Persecution, Discrimination, and Hostility

Posted October 22, 2021 • 00:24:46

The Ahmadiyya Muslim community was founded in 1889 in Punjab, India and today has an estimated tens of millions of members globally. Because of the...

Religious Cemeteries as Targets of Destruction

Posted October 15, 2021 • 00:17:56

Cemeteries are sacred sites that are of great spiritual, cultural, and historical significance to many religious and ethnic groups. These holy sites...

Saudi Arabia’s Religious Reforms Not Enough

Posted October 8, 2021 • 00:19:32

Saudi Arabia has made some reforms to select polices impacting religious freedom, including improvements to its textbooks. Nevertheless, there are still...

Religious Freedom & Taliban Fears in Tajikistan

Posted September 30, 2021 • 00:22:45

For many years, USCIRF has been deeply concerned about religious freedom conditions in Central Asia, and more recently the impact of the Taliban’s...

Why the State Department Should Re-designate Nigeria as a CPC

Posted September 24, 2021 • 00:19:17

Since 2009, USCIRF has recommended that the U.S. State Department designate Nigeria a country of particular concern, or CPC, for engaging in or tolerating...