A/HRC/40/64 76. On 26 November, he was keynote speaker at the Conference on Practicing Pluralism in the Field of Human Rights in Geneva, which was made possible by the Global Centre for Pluralism and the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. He spoke on the theme “Of Values and Men: Challenges to the International Human Rights Architecture”. 77. On 27 November, he made the opening remarks at the conference on addressing anti-Gypsyism in a post-2020 European Union framework for national Roma integration strategies, organized by the Federal Chancellery of Austria, in Vienna. 78. On 27 November, he was one of the speakers at the eleventh Human Rights Conference on the topic of “Human Rights at a Crossroads: the Protection of Religious and Other Minorities”, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, in Budapest. 79. On 29 November, he addressed a side event during the eleventh Forum on Minority Issues, in Geneva, entitled “Not Just Paper: Intersectional and Aggravating Factors Affecting the Lives of Stateless Minorities”, organized by Minority Rights Group International and sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. On 30 November, the Special Rapporteur participated in two further side events during the Forum: one organized by the Jssor Youth Organization, in partnership with the Helping Hands Foundation and OHCHR on the Ibelong campaign to eradicate statelessness; and the other was the presentation of the Forum’s information website and online database launched by the Human Rights Consortium of the University of London, and the Tom Lantos Institute. 80. On 5 December, he spoke on his mandate and thematic priorities at a conference on the struggles and opportunities of the Hungarian minority communities in Romania, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 81. On 6 December, he attended a seminar on Hungarian minority education, held in Târgu Mureş, Romania. 82. On 7 December, he attended a conference and book project meeting, in Budapest, on minority rights, organized by the Tom Lantos Foundation and the Human Rights Consortium of the University of London, during which he gave a presentation on his mandate and thematic priorities. 83. On 10 December, he made a presentation on “Never Again? Minorities, Human Rights and the Prevention of Genocide 70 Years Later” at the Third Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide, held in Yerevan and organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia. 84. He also conducted numerous media interviews on his mandate and minority issues globally. III. Update on the Special Rapporteur’s first thematic report on statelessness as a minority issue 85. In his first thematic report to the General Assembly in October 2018, the Special Rapporteur highlighted the extent to which statelessness is mainly a minority issue, since more than 75 per cent of the world’s more than 10 million men, women and children who find themselves deprived of citizenship are persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. He also explained the underlying causes and patterns for why certain minorities find themselves specifically affected because of breaches of international human rights obligations, and in particular the international prohibition of discrimination. 86. The 2018 Forum on Minority Issues expanded and enriched the observations and recommendations presented in the Special Rapporteur’s thematic report by providing further information and insights on the extent, significance and dire consequences of statelessness for minorities in many States, including in countries in which such information had not been previously considered. Among the information provided was, for example, the fact that the world’s largest single group of stateless persons are Palestinians, 12