A/HRC/46/57 Annex I 1. On 9 July 2020, the Special Rapporteur took part in a webinar entitled ‘Debating Challenges on Minority Protection’, organised by the Tom Lantos Institute, in cooperation with the Human Rights Consortium at the University of London and other organisations. The webinar focussed on the interrelationship between conflicts, minority rights and the promotion of inclusiveness and stability. 2. On 21 July 2020, he participated in a webinar on “Keeping the Faith in Times of Hate: The Practical Utility of Human Rights” co-hosted by Religions for Peace, UN Human Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, raising the implications of COVID-19 for minorities who simultaneously face an increase in hate speech in social media. On 21 July 2020, the Special Rapporteur also addressed a webinar organised by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Strategic Police Matters Unit in collaboration with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities entitled “Towards resilient and cohesive societies: community policing to prevent and combat human trafficking” where he spoke on the particular vulnerability to trafficking of minority women and girls. 3. On 31 July 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur gave the keynote addresses at the plenary session of the Unrepresented Peoples Organisation (UNPO) General Assembly on the impact of COVID-19 on minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide. 4. On 11 August 2020, the Special Rapporteur in the webinar celebrating International Youth Day organised by the National Youth Council of Moldova, in cooperation with the Youth Platform of Interethnic Solidarity of Moldova and former UN Minority Fellows Programme. 5. On 31 August 2020, he gave an online lecture to students in the Human Rights programme at Vesalius College in Brussels on his mandate on minority issues and the protection of minority rights in international law. 6. On 10 September 2020, the Special Rapporteur spoke on ‘Inequalities, disenfranchisement and frailty: fault lines in global human rights protection and challenges faced by minorities’ during a webinar session of the online international Conference on Global Justice, Rule of Law and Human Rights on Pandemic Perspectives, organised by the Research Group Culture, Law and Society of the State University of Maranhão, Brazil. 7. On 14 September 2020, the Special Rapporteur participated in a webinar on “Situation of Human Rights Violation of Dalits in Nepal and Role of the International Community”. 8. On 21 and 22 September 2020, the Special Rapporteur participated in his mandate’s two-day online regional forum for Europe on hate speech, social media and minorities. More than 200 experts, state, human rights and minority representatives participated in the event during four panels looking more closely to the vastly disproportionate, and growing, targeting and scapegoating of minorities in social media for hate and incitement to violence and discrimination. 9. On 23 September 2020, Dr de Varennes gave the plenary presentation for the World Federation of the Deaf webinar and annual meeting for the International Day of Sign Languages. The Special Rapporteur addressed the language rights of users of sign languages as members of linguistic minorities. 10. On 25 September 2020, the Special Rapporteur gave the keynote speech for the 2020 Symposium on French and the Law organised by Massey College at the University of Toronto, on equity and access to education and the legal system. 11. On 8 October 2020, the Special Rapporteur participated online with discussions with and a presentation to students in the Global Minority Rights Summer School 2020 organised by the Tom Lantos Institute in Budapest. 12. On 19 and 20 October 2020, the Special Rapporteur participated in his mandate’s twoday online regional forum for Asia-Pacific on hate speech, social media and minorities. Some 200 experts, state, human rights and minority representatives participated in the event during 19