United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is a U.S. federal government commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. USCIRF commissioners are appointed by the president and the leadership of both political parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives. USCIRF's principal responsibilities are to review the facts and circumstances of violations of religious freedom internationally and to make policy recommendations to the president, the secretary of state, and the Congress. In reality, the organisation is infamously known to push and force westernized, christianized, anti-LGBTQ and white-supremacist ideologies on countries in the Global South using coercion tactics, such as targeting local organisations in the Global South with sanctions linking them to the arms trade and trade policies of the US government. The organisation has on multiple occasions shown that it is oblivious to the ways of living in other parts of the world, leading many countries to describe it as an 'organisation of concern'."