A/64/159 direct impact on their communities, affecting either positively or negatively the religious harmony in a given society. She also referred to disturbing indicators about rifts within the Muslim community in Kosovo, as well as to reports about threats and attacks on Muslim religious leaders for opposing radical religious approaches. The Special Rapporteur would like to reiterate that coercion and violence in the name of religion cannot be accepted and that she expects the relevant authorities to take swift action to counter this worrying trend. 4. Forthcoming missions 50. The Special Rapporteur is grateful that she has been invited by the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and by the Government of the Republic of Chile to visit their countries. She intends to undertake these two country visits in November 2009 and January 2010, respectively. She is also grateful for the invitation letter the mandate recently received from the Government of Bangladesh. An updated list of the Special Rapporteur’s pending requests to undertake country visits is available online on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). 25 C. Participation in conferences and meetings 51. The Special Rapporteur has held numerous formal and informal meetings with representatives of States, religious and belief communities as well as civil society organizations in order to reflect on the situation of freedom of religion or belief at the national and international levels. These meetings were mainly held during country visits or at United Nations Headquarters in New York and Geneva. 52. At the national level, she was invited to speak about the current situation of the right to freedom of religion or belief at the annual “Rassemblement pour les droits humains” organized by the Canton of Geneva on 6 October 2008. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur delivered a public lecture at a conference on “Religions and religious freedom: human rights perspectives in the field of tension arising from mission and conversion”, organized jointly by the German Commission for Justice and Peace and the Centre for Interreligious Studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany (18-20 February 2009). 53. At the international level, the Special Rapporteur was involved in the preparatory process leading up to the Durban Review Conference and the Conference itself. She addressed the Preparatory Committee at its second substantive session on 6 October 2008 and participated in a joint contribution with 13 other mandate-holders 26 in order to provide substantive input to the review process of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. 54. During the Durban Review Conference, the Special Rapporteur addressed the Main Committee on 23 April 2009. She regretted that eight years after the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa, her mandate continued to receive frequent and worrisome reports of religious intolerance and acts of violence against members of virtually all religious or belief communities. Of particular concern are __________________ 25 26 09-40869 See www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/special/visits.htm. A/CONF.211/PC/WG.1/5. 17