This annual report reviews the Commission’s activities during the past year and specifically:

• describes conditions for religious freedom and related human rights in the countries of central concern to the Commission and highlights key findings;
• presents the Commission’s policy recommendations to ensure that the promotion of freedom of religion or belief becomes a more integral part of U.S. foreign policy, furthering both our nation’s humanitarian and national security interests; and
• reports on the actions the Commission has taken to raise public awareness of religious freedom violations, and summarizes the Commission’s efforts to keep Congress and the Administration informed of religious freedom conditions throughout the world.