The Right to Freedom of Belief

"[R]epression of religious freedom runs contrary to shared universal values and undermines genuine stability."  Suzan Johnson Cook, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Sept. 13, 2011.

• USOSCE Statement at Working Session 10 of 2012 HDIM - Freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, Oct. 1, 2012
• USOSCE Statement at Working Session 11 of 2012 - Freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, Oct. 1, 2012

• Statements on Disappearances and on Freedom of Religion or Belief as delivered by Political Counselor Charles O. Blaha to the UN Human Rights Council, March 6, 2012

• U.S. Statement on Responses to and prevention of hate crimes in the OSCE area; Combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on intolerance and discrimination against Christians and members of other religions; Combating anti-Semitism; Combating intolerance and discrimination against Muslims at the 2011 OSCE HDIM, Oct. 4, 2011 (PDF 49kB)
• USOSCE Video Interview with Suzan Johnson Cook, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Sept. 27, 2011
• U.S. Statement on Freedom of Thought, Conscience, Religion or Belief at the 2011 OSCE HDIM, Sept. 27, 2011 (PDF 81kB)
• Department of State's July-December 2010 International Religious Freedom Report, Sept. 13, 2011
• Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's remarks at the lanuch of the July-December 2010 International Religious Freedom Report, Sept. 13, 2011