United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/55/47/Add.1 Distr.: General 18 January 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Visit to Tajikistan Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Nazila Ghanea* Summary The Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Nazila Ghanea, visited Tajikistan from 11 to 20 April 2023. In her report, she analyses the extensive limitations placed on the right to freedom of religion or belief in Tajikistan. She highlights the need to move from the current religion or belief model, which results in extensive human rights violations, to one that upholds the obligations of Tajikistan with regard to freedom of religion or belief. That calls for increased understanding of both religions and freedom of religion or belief and the adoption of a new approach. * The summary of the report is being circulated in all official languages. The report itself, which is annexed to the summary, is being circulated in the language of submission and Russian only. GE.24-00093 (E) 160124 170124