Secretary of State Clinton has just released the State Department’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. This report supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom.

Read more:

• Remarks on the release of the 2009 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
• Briefing on the release of the 2009 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
• Freedom of speech and religion must be balanced, Clinton says
• Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

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