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Developing Countries: Religious Freedom

Question for Department for International Development

UIN 160093, tabled on 3 July 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will offer her Department's expertise to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to help it enhance its country-specific strategies to promote the right to freedom of religion or belief.

Answered on

10 July 2018

Defending the right to freedom of religion or belief remains a top priority for this Government.

Ministers and officials from DFID and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office regularly discuss strategies and approaches to supporting this universal human right.