Kristina Arriaga serves as a commissioner at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

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Empower Women by Standing for Global Religious Freedom

by Kristina Arriaga, by John Ruskay 12-09-2016

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Pwint Phyu Latt is a Muslim peace activist in Burma who sought to promote interfaith relations with Buddhists, the nation’s religious majority. She was sentenced this year to two years in prison and two more years of hard labor.

Gulmira Imin is a Uighur Muslim in China who led the 2009 Uighur protests against its communist government. She has been in prison ever since.