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Interfaith Network for People of All Sexes, Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and
Expressions, focusing her intervention on international standards on freedom of religion or
belief and gender, on 10 November 2022. She was a panellist at an event commemorating
International Tolerance Day, hosted by the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, on 16
November 2022, and at another organized by the Office for Democratic Institutions and
Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, examining
freedom of religion or belief trends, on 12 December 2022. A number of other events engaged
civil society actors around the world, and their promotion of freedom of religion or belief,
including through the universal periodic review.
96.
Virtual meetings allowed the Special Rapporteur to benefit from a range of meetings
with civil society organizations, experts and other mandate holders, and to meet with the
International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance Council of Experts, on 5 September 2022,
and attend its plenary session, on 14 September 2022.
C.
Media
97.
Media coverage included the following:
(a)
Two-page spread in La Lettura of the Corriere della Sera (7 August 2022);
(b)
Radio interview with Radio France International for Religions du Monde
(11 October 2022);
(c)
Long interview with the Religion Media Centre (11 November 2022);
(d)
Persian media coverage at the time of her appointment by the Human Rights
Council (July 2022), given that it was the first time that an Iranian was had been appointed
as a Special Rapporteur of the Council;
(e)
Coverage of her appointment by Voice of America, BBC Persian, Radio Free
Europe and IranWire;
(f)
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BBC Persian TV interview (broadcast 13 September 2022).106
See https://www.bbc.com/persian/tv-and-radio-40033094.
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