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State Department Designates "Countries of Particular Concern" For Violating Religious Freedom Rights
23 Nov 2021, 4:00 am
In a statement, Secretary of State Blinken said:I am designating Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Eritrea, Iran, the DPRK, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as Countries of Particular Concern for having engaged in or tolerated “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 4:20 am
In its 2018 report, USCIRF recommends 16 countries for CPC designation: 10 that the State Department so designated in December 2017—Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—and six others—Central African Republic, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Syria, and Vietnam.The report also includes a second category, USCIRF’s Tier 2, for countries where the violations meet one or two, but not… [read post]
3 May 2023, 4:00 am
These include 12 that the State Department designated as CPCs in November 2022: Burma, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—as well as five additional recommendations: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, Syria, and Vietnam....The 2023 Annual Report also recommends 11 countries for placement on the State Department’s SWL [Special Watch List] based on their governments’ perpetration or toleration of severe… [read post]
2 May 2016, 6:51 am
The Report recommends that the Secretary of State re-designate 9 countries as "countries of particular concern," i.e. countries that engage in or tolerate systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 5:00 am
" In the trailing 12 months the krona has been listed as one of the top three under performing currencies along with the Zimbabwean dollar and Turkmenistan manat.Read the prime ministers sobering address to the nation here.Source: WSJ and Bloomberg [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 7:39 pm
That’s like me talking about Turkmenistan. [read post]
30 May 2020, 4:40 am
Si la respuesta a la pregunta anterior es SI, lo razonable es declarar que es uno de los tantos que afectan el sistema respiratorio pero que en esta versión es más dañino.Finalmente, el pajarraco y la "doctora muerte" meten miedo pero al mismo tiempo difunden noticias de lo que bien le va a ciertos paises, como Vietnam, Turkmenistan, Nueva Zelandia, y vuelven a meter miedo con el rebrote que se produce en Corea del Sur. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 12:45 pm
-Dec. 2020 Update (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text] Knowledge to Empower: Closing the Gap between Stateless People and Statelessness Research (Critical Statelessness Studies Blog, Dec. 2020) [text] UNHCR welcomes Turkmenistan’s decision to grant citizenship to 2,580 stateless people (UNHCR, Dec. 2020) [text] Will Malta’s accession to the 1954 Convention help change a culture of ‘outright exclusion’ of stateless persons? [read post]
1 May 2015, 4:05 am
Accordingly, USCIRF’s CPC recommendations reflect that approach.The Report recommends that the State Department redesignate 9 countries as CPC: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 4:00 am
Virgin Islands, with a rate of 542 per 100,000 people, followed by Turkmenistan at 522 and Cuba at 510. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 8:38 am
It also recommended that 7 other countries be newly designated as CPCs-- Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 1:26 pm
For our next interview, Pini Miretski speaks to the state, technology and the response of Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Turkmenistan, and Belarus in meeting the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 6:06 am
.'So said Elena Bonner (above right), speaking about the Communist Party in 1991, the year of formal dissolution of the Soviet Union and its bloc of satellite republics, and 2 years after the death of her husband, Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov.A longtime human rights activist in her own right, Bonner died in Boston Saturday, 88 years after her birth in what is now Turkmenistan. [read post]
5 May 2011, 1:01 pm
Image via WikipediaFreedom of the Press 2011: A Global Survey of Media Independence, the annual report by the Freedom House watchdog group released this week, rates only 68 countries of 196 nations and territories evaluated as "free," according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (www.rferl.org).The Top 10 List that David Letterman wants nothing to do with--the nations most oppressive toward the news media--include Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukbekistan, Iran, Myanmar, Cuba, Equatorial… [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 1:19 pm
Enlarge (credit: Joe McDonald / Getty) A group of Russian scientists was hit by crippling roaming charges after some of the eagles the researchers were studying flew to countries with high roaming charges, including Iran, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 6:20 am
However, by relying on 2006 designations, Vietnam, Pakistan and Turkmenistan remain off the State Department's list, against the recommendation of USCIRF. [read post]
3 May 2011, 8:24 am
This year has the longest Priority Watch List that I remember with twelve countries: China, Russia, Algeria, Argentina, Canada, Chile, India, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, and Venezuela. 29 countries are in the Watch List, again, quite a lot: Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey,… [read post]
1 May 2009, 12:30 am
USCIRF recommends adding: Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.The Report also places eleven countries on its "Watch List": Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia, Laos, Russia, Somalia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Venezuela. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 5:50 pm
This network brings together law firms in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine, and "aims to combine highest international professional standards with a unique local insight in the regions, which are increasingly attracting international investments. [read post]
7 May 2008, 10:35 pm
I know that Kazakhstan is that vast void of undifferentiated steppe-land, and I've heard of Türkmenbaşy, the (late) strongman of Turkmenistan, who renamed the month of January after himself. [read post]
