E/CN.4/1991/56 page 1 INTRODUCTION 1. At its forty-second session, the Commission on Human Rights decided, in resolution 1986/20 of 10 March 1986, to appoint for one year a Special Rapporteur to examine incidents and governmental actions inconsistent with the provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrmination Based on Religion or Belief, and to recommend remedial measures for such situations. 2. Pursuant to that resolution the Special Rapporteur submitted a first report to the Commission at its forty-third session (E/CN.4/1987/35). His mandate was extended for one year by Commission on Human Rights resolution 1987/15 of 4 March 1987 adopted at that session. 3. At its forty-fourth session, the Commission had before it a further report by the Special Rapporteur (E/CN.4/1988/45 and Add.l and Corr.l) and it decided, by resolution 1988/55, to extend the Special Rapporteur's mandate for two years. At its forty-fifth session, the Special Rapporteur submitted his third report (E/CN.4/1989/44) to the Commission. 4. At its forty-sixth session, the Commission on Human Rights considered his fourth report (E/CN.4/1990/46) submitted in conformity with the provisions of resolution 1989/44. During that session, the Commission decided, by resolution 1990/27, to extend his mandate for two years. 5. The report which follows is submitted to the Commission on Human Rights at its present session in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 14 of resolution 1990/27. 6. In chapter I, the Special Rapporteur recalls the terms of his mandate and his interpretation of them, and describes the working methods he used in preparing this fifth report. 7. Chapter II concerns the activities of the Special Rapporteur during the present reporting period. It indicates the answers given by Governments to a questionnaire addressed by the Special Rapporteur to all States for the purpose of shedding light on the way in which certain problems with which he had been seized in earlier years are treated at the legislative level. It also contains allegations duly transmitted to the Governments concerned regarding situations which seem to depart from the provisions of the Declaration as well as the comments formulated in that regard by Governments. In order to be able to submit his report in time for the forty-seventh session of the Commission on Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur has not been able to take account of communications received after 20 December 1990. They will, however, be included in the report which he will submit to the Commission at its forty-eighth session, in 1992. 8. Lastly, in chapter III, the Special recommendations based on his analysis of numerous infringements of the rights set period covered by this report and on the contribute to preventing intolerance and belief. Rapporteur submits conclusions and the information available on the out in the Declaration during the study of measures which could discrimination based on religion or i