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<h3 class="text-align-center">Numbers-at-a-Glance</h3>

<p class="text-align-center">15 countries recommended for “country of particular concern” (CPC) designation</p>

<p class="text-align-center">1 new country recommended for CPC designation</p>

<p class="text-align-center">12 countries recommended for the State Department’s “Special Watch List” (SWL)</p>

<p class="text-align-center">1 country added to USCIRF’s SWL recommendations</p>

<p class="text-align-center">7 entities recommended for “entity of particular concern” (EPC) designation</p>

<p class="text-align-center">23rd Annual Report</p>

<p class="text-align-center">39 other USCIRF reports published in 2021</p>

<p class="text-align-center">8 Commission hearings in 2021</p>

<p class="text-align-center">47 USCIRF Spotlight podcast episodes published in 2021<br />
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<h3 class="text-align-center">Key USCIRF recommendations implemented in 2021 and early 2022</h3>

<p class="text-align-center">10 CPC recommendations, including the designation of Russia for the first time, an action USCIRF had recommended since 2017</p>

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8 EPC recommendations</p>

<p class="text-align-center">2 key IRF vacancies at the State Department filled</p>

<p class="text-align-center">Designation of Uyghur genocide</p>

<p class="text-align-center">Diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics</p>

<p class="text-align-center">Designation of Rohingya genocide</p>

<p class="text-align-center">Increase in refugee resettlement ceiling to 125,000</p>

<p class="text-align-center">Additional $155 million for Rohingya refugees and others affected by violence in Burma</p>

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<p class="text-align-center">130,000 Muslims remained in government-run internment camps in Burma</p>

<p class="text-align-center">1 to 3 million Turkic Muslims in Chinese concentration camps</p>

<p class="text-align-center">880,000 Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim children separated from their parents</p>

<p class="text-align-center">85 religious groups in Vietnam designated as “strange,” “evil,” or “heretical” religions</p>

<p class="text-align-center">130 religious prisoners released on bail in Eritrea</p>

<p class="text-align-center">Nearly 6,000 organizations adversely affected by the financial regulations in India, including losing licenses to receive funds from abroad</p>

<p class="text-align-center">2 targeted killings of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan, as well as the desecration of 121 Ahmadi graves and 15 places of worship</p>

<p class="text-align-center">105 guilty verdicts against Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, including elderly and disabled members, as well those residing in Russian-occupied Crimea in Ukraine</p>

<p class="text-align-center">Nearly 5 years after the defeat of ISIS in Iraq, almost 1 million Sunni Muslim Arabs, over 200,000 Yazidis, and tens of thousands of Christians remained in IDP and refugee camps there</p>

<p class="text-align-center">Approximately 2,200 religious prisoners remained in prison in Uzbekistan</p>

<p class="text-align-center">2,255 antisemitic incidents reported in the United Kingdom</p>

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