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Michael Dadora is director of the Center for Inquiry's Office of Public Policy

and he's also CFI's representative to the United Nations.

He's

NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

Michael, thanks so much for being with me.

Thanks for inviting me on the show.

I'm glad to be here.

So one of the things I really want to talk to you about

is what's going on with atheists internationally

because, I don't know, over the past year or so,

we've seen so many people who are either outspoken atheists or even accused of blasphemy who have

been imprisoned or killed.

And I'm wondering this is something you deal with on a regular basis.

So first of all, can you tell us kind of what you do with the UN and your work there?

And then we'll talk more specifics about what's going on in other countries.

Absolutely.

So the Center for Inquiry's Office of Public Policy is the program of the organization dedicated to

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