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IRF Roundtable with U.S. Government on Capitol Hill

  • Capitol Hill Washington, DC (map)

Special IRF Roundtable with U.S. Government (Hybrid)

  • Date: Monday, February 3, 2024

  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

  • Attendance: In-person or Virtual (Zoom)

  • Location: Cannon House Office Building

The IRF Roundtable has always been a safe space where survivors of persecution and representatives of all faiths and none can pull together and stand up for each other's freedom of thought, conscience, and religion on the basis of mutual respect, trust, and reliance. Everyone shall follow the Golden Rule and respect the right of each individual participant to speak at the Roundtable, design and launch advocacy initiatives, and self-select into multi-faith coalitions of the willing. Participants may not start arguments, speak ill of, or in any way target or attack any individual participant or group at the Roundtable. To help foster an open and honest environment, we ask that if there is a current issue regarding religious freedom that you would like to discuss, to clearly and briefly summarize the issue and your concern (1-2 sentences) and propose an action item to help solve the issue in collaboration with others.

Reminder 1: Everyone shall follow the Chatham House Rule. Any information disclosed during the meeting may be reported by those present, but the source of that information may not be explicitly or implicitly identified. NO video or audio taping is allowed.

Reminder 2: The IRF Roundtable has always been a safe space where survivors of persecution and representatives of all faiths and none can pull together and stand up for each other's freedom of thought, conscience, and religion on the basis of mutual respect, trust, and reliance. Everyone shall follow the Golden Rule and respect the right of each individual participant to speak at the Roundtable, design and launch advocacy initiatives, and self-select into multi-faith coalitions of the willing. Participants may not start arguments, speak ill of, or in any way target or attack any individual participant or group at the Roundtable.

Reminder 3: This is a civil society-led and run Roundtable. Since one of our purposes is to bring civil society and governments together for information sharing and coordination, we always invite government officials to our meetings and welcome their updates and participation. We need civil society and governments working together to solve these problems. But government participation in these meetings does NOT mean they endorse the multi-faith presentations at the meetings and/or the multi-faith initiatives that are launched by civil society participants.

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