All we can do is the best we can and be open to refining the criteria as the results come in. The survey criteria listed in Appendix 2 are developed from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, the European Convention on Human Rights, and from a list of criteria developed by Willy Fautre. They are based on the fact that surveying religious freedom is more limited than surveying human rights in general, but also it is different from surveying particular human rights, such as press freedom, which focus only on particular organizations or practices. With freedom of the press, one can look at the intensity of controls on particular media and the weight of penalties applied with those controls. But, unlike press freedom, religious freedom cannot be focused on the freedoms of certain organizations and individuals.
Religious freedom cuts across a wide range of human rights.
First, it refers to the freedoms of particular bodies, houses of worship, humanitarian organizations, educational institutions, and so forth. Second, it refers to freedom for particular individual religious practices-prayer, worship, dress, proclamation, diet, and so forth. Third, it refers to human rights in general in so far as they involve particular religious bodies, individuals, and activities. For example, the freedom to proclaim one's religion or belief is an issue of freedom of speech generally and is parallel to freedom of speech in other areas of life. Similarly, for freedom of the press or freedom of association.