REPORTS & BRIEFS

Annual Report

• 2013 Annual Report
• 2012 Annual Report
• 2011 Annual Report
• 2010 Annual Report
• 2009 Annual Report
• 2008 Annual Report
• 2007 Annual Report
• 2006 Annual Report
• 2005 Annual Report
• 2004 Annual Report
• 2003 Annual Report

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Annual Report - Chapters and Summaries

• Nigeria Chapters and Summaries

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Did You Know...

• Did You Know...Nigeria (April 15, 2013)
• Did You Know...Nigeria (December 21, 2012)

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Policy Briefs and Focuses

• Nigeria Policy Focus - August 2004

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Factsheets

• July 2012 Factsheet: Religious Freedom Violations and Religious VIolence in Nigeria

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Special Reports

• Comparative Study of Constitutions of OIC Countries, 2012 Update
• Summer 2011: International Affairs Review -- International Religious Freedom: Why It Matters and How to Protect It

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ADVISING GOVERNMENT

Congressional Testimony

• 11/17/2011: Testimony of Chairman Leonard A. Leo before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights on the 2011 International Religious Freedom Report
• 6/03/2011: Testimony of USCIRF Chair Leonard Leo before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights on International Religious Freedom: Strengthening its Promotion in U.S. Foreign Policy
• 9/24/2009: Testimony of USCIRF Chair Leonard Leo on Prospects for Justice in Northern and Central Nigeria: Government Responses to Religious Extremism and Root Causes
• 9/24/2009: Testimony of USCIRF Chair Leonard Leo on Briefing on Religious Freedom in Nigeria

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Government Correspondence

• 1/14/2011: USCIRF Letter to President Obama on Egypt, Nigeria, and China
• 2/05/2008: Commission Asks President Clinton to Raise Religious-Freedom Issues During Nigerian Visit
• 5/11/2001: Letter Asks President Bush to Raise Religious-Freedom Issues With Nigerian President

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NEWS ROOM

Press Releases

• 5/21/2013: USCIRF Welcomes IRF Report; Calls for CPC Designations
• 4/30/2013: USCIRF’s 2013 Annual Report on the State of International Religious Freedom Identifies World’s Worst Violators
• 4/15/2013: USCIRF Concerned by Nigeria’s Religiously-Related Violence and Inadequate Government Response
• 1/7/2012: USCIRF Condemns Attacks in North East Nigeria and Urges Authorities to Bring Perpetrators to Justice
• 12/26/2011: USCIRF Condemns Christmas Violence in Nigeria and Urges Authorities to Bring Perpetrators to Justice
• 9/13/2011: USCIRF Comment on the State Department's Designation of “Countries of Particular Concern” and Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
• **SAVE THE DATE** The Interplay between Religious Freedom, Extremism, and Security: Implications for U.S. Policy
• 4/28/2011: USCIRF Identifies World's Worst Religious Freedom Violators: Egypt Cited for First Time
• 12/29/2010: USCIRF Condemns Christmas Eve Violence in Nigeria and Urges Authorities to Bring Perpetrators to Justice
• 7/01/2010: As Nigeria Assumes Presidency of UN Security Council, USCIRF Seeks End...
• 3/10/2010: USCIRF Statement on Nigeria Massacre
• 4/23/2009: Nigeria: Opportunities and Challenges for Stemming Religious Violence
• 12/03/2008: Nigeria: USCIRF Deeply Concerned by Deaths and Ethnic Violence, Calls for Swift Investigation and Prosecution of Those Responsible
• 11/10/2005: USCIRF Welcomes Redesignation of Eight "Countries of Particular Concern"; Disappointed that Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan Not Designated
• 9/30/2004: Nigeria: End the Violence by Ensuring Religious Freedom
• 5/25/2004: Nigeria: Address Sectarian Violence
• 3/15/2004: The Pastor and the Imam: Forging an Alliance to Combat Religious Conflict in Nigeria
• 2/17/2004: Sharia, Extremism, and Communal Violence in Nigeria
• 9/26/2003: Nigeria: Commission welcomes acquittal in stoning case
• 8/10/2000: Commission Asks President Clinton to Raise Religious-Freedom Issues During Nigerian Visit

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Op-Eds

• 5/14/2013: Washington Post On Faith -- Honor U.S. values and interests: Back religious freedom abroad
• 12/26/2012: Washington Post On Faith -- So this is Christmas...
• 1/25/2012: Baltimore Sun -- In Nigeria, getting away with murder
• 12/12/2011: The Hill -- Myths About Religious Freedom Abroad
• 7/1/2011: Harvard International Review -- Protecting Religious Freedom Abroad
• 4/12/2010: Wall Street Journal -- Nigeria's Descent Into Religious Strife

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USCIRF In the News

• 5/06/2011: Islamists Slaughter Christians in Nigeria, Obama Looks the Other Way - Hudson New York
• 5/03/2011: Nigerian Church Leaders Call for Probe into Election Violence - Compass Direct News
• 5/01/2011: U.S. Panel ID's World's Top Religious Persecutors - CBN News
• 4/29/2011: Turkey on religious freedom watch list for 3rd year in a row - Today's Zaman
• 4/29/2011: US report puts Egypt with worst religion violators - Associated Press
• 4/29/2011: Religious freedom watchdog group adds Egypt to violator list - CNN
• 4/29/2011: Country of concern - World Magazine
• 4/29/2011: US Panel Singles Out Top Religious Persecutors - The Epoch Times
• 4/29/2011: U.S. Religious-Freedom Commission Recommends Egypt Be Listed Among Worst Offenders - RFE/RL
• 4/28/2011: Recurrent attacks on Copts has Egypt slated for US religious freedom blacklist - Ahram Online
• 4/28/2011: U.S. Urged to Step Up Religious Freedom Efforts in Egypt - Christian Post
• 1/05/2011: Lost religious liberty worldwide - Japan Times
• 5/26/2010: God and Man in the World - National Review Online
• 5/02/2010: Nigerian violence raised as concern by US religious freedom commission - Catholic Review
• 4/29/2010: Nigeria among worst violators of freedom - Washington Times
• 4/29/2010: USCIRF Eleventh Annual Report on Religious Freedom in the World Released
• 4/08/2010: 'We Want Nigeria to Succeed,' But Nigerians Have to Want That Too - AllAfrica
• 4/06/2010: US, Nigeria Establish Bi-National Commission - Voice of America
• 3/12/2010: USCIRF Statement on Nigeria Massacre - First Things
• 12/20/2009: US Blames Security At Lagos Airports - Nigeria Guardian News
• 10/16/2009: Nigeria: U.S. Probes Boko Haram - All Africa
• 8/25/2009: Renewed Islamist violence in Nigeria targets Christians - Christian Week
• 8/03/2009: US Commission asks Hillary to address Nigerian Religious Violence - Washington Post
• 6/23/2009: Guess who is not coming to town? - Nigeria Guardian News
• 6/05/2009: Nigeria: The Problem of Religious Strife in AfricaÂ’s Largest Nation - Baptist Standard
• 5/15/2009: Religious freedom in Nigeria - Nigeria Guardian News
• 5/04/2009: US Panel Says Nigeria Among Worst Violators... - International Christian Concern
• 5/01/2009: U.S. faith panel blacklists Nigeria - Washington Times
• 5/01/2009: Condemning Nigeria - World Magazine
• 5/01/2009: Religious freedom panel adds Nigeria to list... - Associated Baptist Press
• 4/29/2009: Mons. Onaiyekan: le violenze in Nigeria ... - Radio Vaticana
• 4/24/2009: Nigerian archbishop, sultan say 'religious' violence is political - Catholic News Service
• 4/23/2009: Nigeria: Opportunities And Challenges For Stemming Religious Violence

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Speeches

• 12/7/2012: Remarks by USCIRF Chair Katrina Lantos Swett at Conference on Religious Freedom, Violent Religious Extremism, and Constitutional Reform in Muslim-Majority Countries

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EVENTS

Briefings, Roundtables & Speeches

• 3/15/2004: Nigeria: The Pastor and the Imam: Forging an Alliance to Combat Religious Conflict in Nigeria
• 2/17/2004: Nigeria: Sharia, Extremism, and Communal Violence in Nigeria

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