Katrina Lantos Swett: “None of them have used the tools that IRFA provides to try and actually bring about change.”

the progress of freedom requires courage, it requires people in extraordinarily difficult circumstances who are willing to put their safety, their well-being on the line.

I do think a central part of the answer to that question is that human rights, religious freedom have to be elevated in the public discourse.

When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the seedbed for extremism...

As the daughter of Holocaust survivors I can testify as to how surreal it is for a people to have to defend themselves in this day and age not only against hateful attitudes and behaviors, but also against those who try to dissuade others…