Human Rights Links / Enlaces de Derechos Humanos

	Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos / Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
	Derechos Humanos / Human Rights
	Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja / International Committee of the Red Cross

– La NO violencia no es la simple ausencia de violencia.

• La NO violencia es tener la oportunidad de hacer daño y abstenerse de hacerlo.

• Es el reflejo del amor y la compasión humanas; es tan inseparable como la bondad de la compasión.

SS El Dalai Lama

– La violencia es el miedo a los ideales de los demás.

Mahatma Ghandi 

2008 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom

Oct.7 (DP.net).-  US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, introduced to the public on September 19, this Annual Report covering the 12 months ended on 20 June 2008.  This report has been issued annually for 10 years since the US Congress approved the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998.  The report is now available to the public on the Internet >>HERE and institutions may get free hard copies if requested.

This work supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide.  According to the Report, the IRF Act requires «the designation of countries that have "engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom" during the reporting period».

Following its precise guidelines, the Report has designated Burma, China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as "Countries of Particular Concern". In addition, "countries where religious freedom is of significant concern" include Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Vietnam.

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