{"id":7740,"date":"2020-05-02T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T06:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T06:44:17","slug":"u-s-commission-on-international-religious-freedom-uscirf-annual-report-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/u-s-commission-on-international-religious-freedom-uscirf-annual-report-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom) USCIRF Annual report 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: International<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americanbazaaronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/USCIRF-annual-report.jpg\" alt=\"What the 2020 USCIRF annual report says about India\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has downgraded India to the lowest ranking, \u201ccountries of particular concern\u201d (CPC) in its 2020 report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report, released in Washington by the federal government commission that functions as an advisory body, placed India alongside countries, including China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. India was categorized as a \u201cTier 2 country\u201d in last year\u2019s listing.<\/li>\n<li>This is the first time since 2004 that India has been placed in this category.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIndia took a sharp downward turn in 2019,\u201d the commission noted in its report, which included specific concerns about the Citizenship Amendment Act, the proposed National Register for Citizens, anti-conversion laws, and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/li>\n<li>Government of India reacted sharply to the USCIRF report on Tuesday, terming it \u201cbiased and tendentious\u201d and rejected its observations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: International Why in news? The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has downgraded India to the lowest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}