Methodology, Metrics, and Moral Imperatives in Religious Freedom Diplomacy
Robert Seiple Sunday, 1 June 2008
The Laotian Ambassador was clearly uncomfortable. I had called him into my office at the State Department to demonstrate our concern over what appeared at the time to be an increasingly problematic human rights record, particularly in religious freedom. As the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, I felt it necessary to point out the requirements of our newly minted International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), the obligation the U.S. was putting on countries who were suppressing religious freedom, and the potential punishments that could be applied to a country if positive progress was not made.
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