A/HRC/52/27 8. In his visits, the Special Rapporteur focuses on the importance of addressing discrimination, exclusion and other violations of human rights involving particularly marginalized minorities, such as the Dalits, Hazara, Rohingya and Roma, and doubly or even triply marginalized minority women, and issues pertaining to deaf and hard-of-hearing persons who, as users of sign language, are members of linguistic minorities. 9. The Special Rapporteur conducted an official visit to Paraguay from 14 to 25 November 2022 at the invitation of the Government. The country visit report will be submitted to the Human Rights Council in 2024. The Special Rapporteur will be conducting an official visit to Costa Rica in May 2023. B. Communications 10. The Special Rapporteur sent communications and urgent action letters to the Member States concerned based on information received from diverse sources about human rights violations perpetrated against national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. Those communications and the responses thereto are publicly available. 11. In 2022, a total of 70 communications were sent by the Special Rapporteur. Of those, 64 were letters of allegation and 6 were letters commenting on and raising concerns over specific legislation, policies and practices. All of them were sent jointly with other special procedure mandate holders, with 11 led by the Special Rapporteur. 12. With regard to the geographical distribution of the communications, they were sent to States in Africa (3), Asia and the Pacific (36), Eastern Europe (4), Western Europe (17), Latin America and the Caribbean (2) and others (8). C. Conferences and awareness-raising activities 13. Raising awareness and increasing the visibility of the human rights of minorities has been repeatedly highlighted as an important dimension of the Special Rapporteur’s work since his appointment by the Human Rights Council in June 2017. Accordingly, the Special Rapporteur has frequently participated in and contributed to conferences, seminars and meetings at the international, regional and national levels throughout the world and with a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations. He has also given frequent media interviews on issues involving the human rights of minorities. 14. In 2022, the Special Rapporteur participated as a keynote or guest speaker and panellist in almost 80 events, including webinars or in-person conferences, such as the opening of the high-level event on the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities at the General Assembly in New York on 21 September 2022; the third round table with technology and social media companies on addressing and countering hate speech; the Twenty-second Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons (established by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)) in Vienna; the thirtieth anniversary of the dispute settlement to South Tyrol between Austria and Italy in Bolzano, Italy; the Times of Crisis Pillar Summit of the United Nations network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities, in Costa Rica; the annual meeting of the Federalist Union of European Nationalities; the high-level celebratory event of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the launch of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages; the analysis workshop organized by Conciliation Resources and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation on mediating self-determination conflicts; the tenth anniversary of the Ljubljana Guidelines on Integration of Diverse Societies organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities; the OSCE-wide event on countering hate speech, in Vienna; the regional conference on the role of religious leaders and actors in countering hate speech organized by the OHCHR Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa, in Beirut; the meeting on persecution in India, organized by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; the Atlantic CouncilHuman Rights Watch side event in New York on the situation in the Xinjiang Uighur 3