Click the link below to read the letter drafted by Hudson's Nina Shea and sent to Secretary Kerry about the religious persecution of the vulnerable Christian and Yazidi minorities of Iraq and Syria.
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A truck drives through the Alataw Pass Comprehensive Bonded Zone in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala in Xinjiang, the Alataw Pass borders Kazakhstan. (Getty Images)