Human Rights Reports & Country Profiles

Country Code Description (source and severity of persecution)

The following Human Rights Reports list countries where there are known human rights violations because of persecution or severe discrimination against Christians.  The first list is by region; the second list is the same countries arranged alphabetically.  Country profiles and articles on these countries will be linked to the page for each country.  This list of human rights violators will grow as information becomes available.  Each country has a code based on the source and the severity of the persecution.

"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."

  -- United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18