A/HRC/58/34 Council resolutions 16/18, 53/1 and 55/16. In addition, the “Geneva100” meeting brought together religious leaders and faith-based actors from the Geneva Spiritual Appeal on its twenty-fifth anniversary, the International Committee of the Red Cross on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the Inter-religious Platform of Geneva, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Faith for Rights network. 66. The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights included in its 2024 publication Belief, Dialogue and Security: Fostering Dialogue and Joint Action Across Religious and Belief Boundaries the Faith for Rights framework and methodology as a good practice for joint action across religions and beliefs. Furthermore, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in paragraph 31 of its general recommendation No. 40 (2024) on the equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems recommended that States parties engage religious leaders and faith-based actors in the process of addressing areas of possible tensions between some interpretations of religious traditions and human rights, such as through the Faith for Rights framework of OHCHR. 67. Through the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, OHCHR has continued to document measures taken by the occupying power that impact members and clergy of different religious communities in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.57 In June, the authorities of the occupying power demolished the last remaining place of worship of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea.58 In October, the Russian-appointed Supreme Court of Crimea deregistered the Muslim organization “Alushta” after an application by the Russian-appointed Ministry of Justice in Crimea, which claimed that the community disseminated “extremist materials”. 59 In the temporarily occupied territories, Jehovah’s Witnesses continued to be prosecuted for activities related to their religion based on the designation of their religious community as an “extremist organization” in the Russian Federation in 2017. At least four members of Jehovah’s Witnesses were indicted on criminal charges related to the practice of their religion in Crimea in 2024. In October, the Russian-appointed Supreme Court of Crimea increased the sentences of two members of Jehovah’s Witnesses from six-year suspended sentences to six years in a penal colony. They were initially convicted for discussing the Bible and religious doctrine in July.60 68. OHCHR has expressed concerns regarding the law on the protection of constitutional order in the sphere of activities of religious organizations (Law No. 3894-IX), adopted by the Parliament of Ukraine on 20 August 2024. The law introduced legislative amendments which, inter alia, prohibited the activities in Ukraine of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as Ukrainian religious organizations found by a court to be affiliated with a prohibited foreign religious organization.61 IV. United Nations network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities 69. The United Nations network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities62 continued to provide a platform to address, through awareness-raising, advocacy and capacity-building, issues of racial discrimination and the protection of national or ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities, including in relation to multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. The network brings together a range of United Nations departments, 57 58 59 60 61 62 GE.25-00006 General Assembly resolution 78/221. See the conference room paper of OHCHR on the treatment of prisoners of war, containing an update on the situation of human rights in Ukraine from 1 June to 31 August 2024, paras. 106 and 107, available at www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessionsregular/session57/A-HRC-57-CRP-7.docx. OHCHR, “Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine: 1 September to 30 November 2024”, 31 December 2024, para. 72, available at www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/ukraine/2024-12-31-pr41-ukraine-en.pdf. Ibid., para. 71. See the conference room paper of OHCHR on the treatment of prisoners of war, containing an update on the situation of human rights in Ukraine from 1 June to 31 August 2024, paras. 114 and 115. See www.ohchr.org/en/minorities/un-network-racial-discrimination-and-protection-minorities. 15