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SUMMARY:CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING: India Persecutes Religious Minorities: USCIRF 2023 Report
DESCRIPTION:This briefing is being called following the release last week of the Annual Report 2023 by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an autonomous federal panel that is mandated by US Congress to track global religious persecution.\n\nThe USCIRF Annual Report 2023 has recommended, for the fourth straight year, that the US Department of State designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). The USCIRF report highlights the religiously discriminatory practices of the Indian government on the federal, local, and state levels throughout 2022. These policies attack the right of women to wear hijabs, interfaith marriages, religious conversion, and the very lives and citizenship of religious minorities.\n\n\nWHAT: INDIA PERSECUTES RELIGIOUS MINORITIES: USCIRF 2023 REPORT\nWHEN: Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at 12 pm (EST)\nWHERE: Room# 2043, Rayburn House Office Building, 45 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20515\nREGISTER: Here ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvyx2PKuJi9YZOx-0LJCOCSDgLeAJXldVzsHcRcKluewfmOQ/viewform )\n\n\n\nThis briefing brings together subject matter experts from India and the US. They are:\n\nDr. Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Award winner\n\nNadine Maenza, Former USCIRF Chair\n\nPastor Bryan Nerren, jailed for being Christian\n\nSafa Ahmed, Indian American Muslim Council\n\nJyot Singh, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund\n\nRia Chakrabarty, Hindus for Human Rights\n \n\n\nThis briefing is co-organized by: Genocide Watch, World Without Genocide, Indian American Muslim Council, Hindus for Human Rights, Jubilee Campaign, 21Wilberforce, Dalit Solidarity Forum, New York State Council of Churches, Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations of North America, India Civil Watch International, Center for Pluralism, International Commission for Dalit Rights, American Muslim Institution, International Society for Peace and Justice, and Association of Indian Muslims of America.\n
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