{"id":72370,"date":"2020-12-10T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=72370"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T05:37:43","slug":"us-designates-pak-china-as-countries-of-particular-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-designates-pak-china-as-countries-of-particular-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"US designates Pak, China as countries of particular concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/world-news\/us-designates-pakistan-china-as-countries-of-particular-concern-for-violation-of-religious-freedom\/articleshow\/79617435.cms\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:\u00a0<\/strong>US State Department has designated Pakistan and China among eight other countries that are of particular concern for violation of religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Countries of Particular Concern(CPC):\u00a0<\/strong>It is a designation by the United States Secretary of State under the International Religious Freedom Act enacted by USA in 1998.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is it given?<\/strong>\u00a0It is given to countries which engage in or tolerate systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Countries on the CPC list<\/strong>: The nations on the CPC list are Pakistan, China, Myanmar, Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>The US State Department did not accept the US Commission on International Religious Freedom(USCIRF) recommendation that India, Russia, Syria and Vietnam be also designated as CPCs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Special Watch List country:\u00a0<\/strong>It is one that is deemed not to meet all of the CPC criteria but engages in or tolerates severe violations of religious freedom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>USCIRF<\/strong>: It is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission which seeks to defend the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source :\u00a0Click here News:\u00a0US State Department has designated Pakistan and China among eight other countries that are of particular concern for violation of religious freedom. Facts: Countries of Particular Concern(CPC):\u00a0It is a designation by the United States Secretary of State under the International Religious Freedom Act enacted by USA in 1998. Why is it given?\u00a0It&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-designates-pak-china-as-countries-of-particular-concern\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US designates Pak, China as countries of particular concern<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1333],"class_list":["post-72370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-ir_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704882843},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}