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Human Rights, during which he made a presentation on the international dimension of
conflict prevention and the linguistic (human) rights of minorities.
51.
On 17 June, he participated in a workshop, held in Oslo, focusing on minority rights
in the Middle East and North Africa. The next day, he spoke on inclusive citizenship,
human rights and identity politics, at the International Conference on Human Rights and
Inclusive Citizenship – Conditions for Co-existence in Conflict-ridden Societies, organized
by the Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minorities Studies at the University of Oslo.
52.
On 20 June, he made a presentation on the theme of new opportunities in European
minority protection and the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, at the
sixty-third Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities, in Leeuwarden in the
Netherlands.
53.
On 25 June, he addressed, as a panellist, the World Conference on Religions, Creeds
and Value Systems: Joining Forces to Enhance Equal Citizenship Rights, held in Geneva,
organized by the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue, the
International Catholic Migration Commission, the World Council of Churches, the World
Council of Religious Leaders, Bridges to Common Ground and the European Centre for
Peace and Development.
54.
On 26 June, he participated as an expert in the round table on citizenship stripping as
a security measure, held in The Hague, the Netherlands, and organized by the Institute on
Statelessness and Inclusion, in collaboration with the Open Society Justice Initiative, the
Asser Institute and Ashurst.
55.
On 3 July, he gave a keynote speech on United Nations standards regarding the
protection of the human rights of minorities for stable and inclusive societies at the First
Nations Governance Forum, coordinated by the Australian National University in Canberra.
The next day, he made a presentation on the nature and extent of minority rights in
international law and his mandate, at the same venue.
56.
On 11 July, he spoke on “Human Rights at a Crossroads: Where We Stand in 2018”,
for the United Nations Information Service’s fifty-sixth Graduate Study Programme on the
seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Geneva.
57.
On 12 July, he gave a lecture on his mandate, activities and the challenges he faced
for the Summer Human Rights Programme of the School of Law at Murdoch University in
Australia, which was held in Geneva.
58.
On 16 July he gave a presentation on his mandate to the sixth Global Minority
Rights Summer School, “The Law and Politics of Minority Rights: Are Norms and
Institutions Failing Us?”, held in Budapest.
59.
On 14 September, he was a keynote speaker on the topic of “Tolerance and NonDiscrimination: Minorities and the Prevention of Aggressive Nationalism, Racism and
Chauvinism”, at the 2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting held by the OSCE
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw.
60.
On 19 September, he made a presentation at the World Conference on Xenophobia,
Racism, and Populist Nationalism in the Context of Global Migration, held in the Vatican
and organized by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the World
Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
61.
On 26 September, he spoke on the issue of “Identity and Belonging: the Role of
Human Rights for Minorities”, during the 2018 session of the European Union
Fundamental Rights Forum, “National Minorities and the State: from Exclusive Identities
to Multilayered Forms of Identities”, organized by the European Union Agency for
Fundamental Rights and the Council of Europe in Vienna.
62.
On 1 October, he gave a public lecture on special procedures and his mandate, in
particular, at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway. The same day he gave a
seminar for staff and students on the topic of the linguistic – and other – rights of minorities
and the global human rights system.
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