VOL. XLI

No. 44

2-November-1998

SANCTIONS

White House Signs Religious Freedom Act

US President Bill Clinton on 27 October signed into law HR 2431, the"International Religious Freedom Act of 1998", which is purported to promotereligious freedom around the world. This bill gives the president 15 policy responses eight diplomatic and seven prohibitions on US aid or economic sanctions tocountries found to be engaged in religious persecution. The options range from diplomaticprotest and cutting off...