{"id":1968,"date":"2021-09-01T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2021-09-03T23:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T06:14:24","slug":"uscirf-releases-new-factsheet-on-destruction-of-cemeteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/uscirf-releases-new-factsheet-on-destruction-of-cemeteries\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIRF Releases New Factsheet on Destruction of Cemeteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington, DC \u2013 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/\">USCIRF<\/a>) today released the following new report on the destruction of cemeteries of specific religious communities globally:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publication\/destruction-cemeteries-factsheet\">Destruction of Cemeteries\u00a0<\/a>\u2013\u00a0This factsheet outlines international human rights law that defines the obligations of governments to protect the cultural heritage of religious communities\u2019 cemeteries. Additionally, it describes specific examples of cemetery neglect, vandalism, desecration, and destruction at the hands of non-state actors and state-sponsored entities from 2018 to present. The report provides examples of destruction in Algeria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Turkey in addition to a section specifically on Jewish cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The factsheet covers cemeteries located in countries USCIRF recommended in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-04\/2021%20Annual%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Annual Report<\/a> that the U.S. Department of State should designate as a \u201ccountry of particular concern\u201d or place on its \u201cSpecial Watch List,\u201d as well as sites in one country not included in USCIRF\u2019s Annual Report \u2013 South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC \u2013 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_badge":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png",200,200,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"ArmenianCouncil","author_link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/author\/armeniancouncil\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/logo-uscirf.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_badge?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}