Click here to read USCIRF's report, Assessing the U.S. Government's Detention of Asylum Seekers: Further Attention Needed to Fully Implement Reforms.

Click here to read the Initial Analysis of Problematic Provisions Related to Freedom of Religion or Belief and Associated Rights in Egyptian Draft Constitution. 

USCIRF’s 2012 report, “The Religion-State Relationship & the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Majority Muslim Countries and Other OIC Members,” analyzes how constitutions of countries belonging to the OIC treat issues of human rights and religious freedom.  This study, which updates a study USCIRF undertook in 2005, focuses on 56 countries.  The study finds that these countries, stretching from Europe to Africa through the Middle East and into Asia, encompass a variety of constitutional arrangements addressing the role of Islam and the scope of religious freedom and other related human rights.  A constitution’s text is important as both a statement of fundamental law and national aspirations, and a tool for those seeking to enforce its promises.    

Click here to read The U.S. Commission on International Religous Freedom: Challenging the Status Quo by Leonard Leo and Don Argue, which appeared in the Fall 2012 edition of The Review of Faith & International Affairs.  

Click here to read "(Yet Another) Crisis in Sudan: Khartoum's Religious Freedom and Human Rights Abuses" by Leonard Leo and Elizabeth Prodromou, which appeared in the Summer 2012 edition of The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. 

Click here to read International Religious Freedom: Why It Matters and How to Protect It by Leonard Leo and Don Argue, which appeared in the Summer 2011 edition of International Affairs Review. 

Connecting the Dots: Education and Religious Discrimination in Pakistan 

An article entitled "'Protecting Religions from 'Defamation': A Threat to Universal Human Rights Standards" by Leonard A. Leo, Felice D. Gaer, and Elizabeth K. Cassidy appeared in the Spring 2011 edition of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.  For a link to the article, go to http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/LeoFinal.pdf 

Click here to view the report.