The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has set up a task force on global market sanctions.
Our most recent report on international religious freedom, released by Secretary Clinton in July, documents this disturbing and growing trend.
The U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom -- an independent, bipartisan federal agency -- regularly documents the Iranian regime's actions toward the Baha'is.
The letter was signed by Nina Shea of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and leaders of seven other U.S. religious organizations.
Philosophically, America's Commission on International Religious Freedom (a bipartisan body that advises Congress and the White House) is in step with the Obama mood.
As Michael Cromartie, a member of the president's commission on international religious freedom, points out, the timing of Mr Kuo's criticism is awkward and misleading.
To that end, we must strengthen, not garrote, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom - the one official entity still doing that vital mission.
State how United States foreign policy could advance international religious freedom.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom warned last year that a subsidiary of Sinopec is part of a joint venture to develop oil fields in Sudan.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended such sanctions for the second time in 10 months in a report on Sudan issued in March.
Ms. Shea is the highly respected director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House and an influential member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Durbin is a member of both the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees - the panels responsible for reauthorizing and funding the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to give independent recommendations to the executive branch and the Congress.
Meanwhile, the religious groups have been working through the recently established U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom set up by Congress to press their case with the Clinton administration.
It should be sufficient grounds for acting on an earlier recommendation by the Commission on International Religious Freedom: Close the Saudi embassy-run madrassa in our midst, once and for all.
This is the written statement of Nina Shea , Director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, before the International Religious Freedom Caucus of the US House of Representatives.
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6432(b).
In the United States there are two bodies with a mandate to monitor global religious liberty: the State Department and a Commission on International Religious Freedom, which often takes a more rigorous view.
Finally, I want to acknowledge a leader who is guiding our efforts in this area a minister and faith leader in her own right our dedicated Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Suzan Johnson Cook.
In a report released today, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom criticized what it calls a lack of religious freedom in Saudi society overall and the promotion of religious extremism in Saudi schools.
"The fact remains that American investors would be funding a company with a large and growing presence in Sudan, " says Nina Shea, a member of the board of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom.
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Specifically, there should be a blue-ribbon, bipartisan commission configured to build upon the groundbreaking work concerning penetration of the U.S. capital markets by the Cox Committee, the Deutch Commission and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Two days after the oil firm's IPO, the Commission on International Religious Freedom sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the body that vets stock listings, asking the SEC to investigate the "accuracy and adequacy" of Sinopec's filing.
Other groups, such as the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an advisory body, has been lobbying President George Bush on the idea of barring Chinese sovereign bond offerings in the U.S. unless the country improves its record on religious freedoms.
The Wonacott article cast considerable doubt on the authenticity of this asset transfer and prompted the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to demand an investigation of the matter in a letter to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt on 20 October.
As USCIRF recommends, the administration should also lift the indefinite waiver of any action pursuant to the designation of Saudi Arabia as a "Country of Particular Concern" under the International Religious Freedom Act - the only "CPC" to receive an indefinite waiver.
The Secretary of State formally determined last year and again this year that the government of China has been engaging in systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom within the meaning of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), 22 U.S.C. 6401 et seq.
Abu Ali was also valedictorian of his class at the Saudi Islamic Academy, the Saudi Embassy-backed 900-student school in the Washington, DC suburbs, that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has repeatedly urged the US State Department to shut down on the grounds that it teaches religious intolerance.
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The bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, in a 20 December 1999 press release, announced the establishment of a Capital Markets Task Force, in large part out of concern that certain international oil companies, such as Talisman Energy Inc. of Canada, may use funds attracted in the U.S. markets to help finance their corporate activities in terrorist- and slavery-sponsoring Sudan.
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Dr. Zuhdi Jaser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) forwarded his application for the membership of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and was refused by the State Department to be considered because of his overt patriotism for his country and because his interpretation of Koran faces down the radicals which have and are being appeased and pacified at every turn.
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