A/HRC/61/50 B. Conferences, seminars and media engagement 101. The Special Rapporteur has attended numerous conferences and events in person since 25 July 2025. A small selection of those activities is outlined below. 102. On 4 September, she participated in a human rights conversation at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, entitled “Mandates in dialogue: strengthening collaboration across UN mechanisms and academic institutions”. Co-hosted by the Geneva Human Rights Platform and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the event explored how such cooperation could be strategically enhanced. 103. On 19 September, during the sixtieth session of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur spoke at a side event entitled “The Rabat Plan of Action in the digital age: balancing freedom of expression and freedom of religion or belief”, co-sponsored by Albania, Canada, Iceland, Morocco, North Macedonia and Portugal. 104. On 22 September, on the European Action Day Against Islamophobia, she addressed the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations on the issue of anti-Muslim hatred across Europe, noting that discriminatory rhetoric was becoming increasingly normalized and linked with anti-migrant sentiment. 105. The Special Rapporteur travelled to Accra from 6 to 8 October, attending a Regional Academy of the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief, a global network of former and sitting parliamentarians advancing freedom of religion or belief for everyone, everywhere. She also participated in another Regional Academy in Singapore in November 2025. 106. On 14 October, the Special Rapporteur delivered the opening lecture on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Centre for Law and Religion at the Catholic University of Chile, Santiago. 107. From 15 to 17 October, she travelled to Naples, Italy, where she was a panellist at the Mediterranean Dialogue, the leading annual conference on the Mediterranean promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy and the Italian Institute for International Political Studies. 108. On 10 November, she was a plenary speaker at the opening of the international conference at the University of Padova, “From the right to self-determination to the right to peace”. 109. On 12 and 13 November, the Special Rapporteur participated as a keynote speaker at the High-Level International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance Conference, held in Prague under the auspices of the President of Czechia. 110. On 27 and 28 November, she was a panellist at the ninth Southeast Asia Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference in Jakarta. From 1 to 3 December, she participated as a keynote speaker at the ninth meeting of the South Asia Forum for Freedom of Religion or Belief, entitled “Caste, religion and ethnicity in South Asia: FoRB as an instrument of inclusion”, held in Kathmandu. She had exchanges with civil society organizations and academics at both conferences, gaining a better understanding of how freedom of religion or belief could be further promoted at the regional level and how to map good practices. 111. On 4 December, she participated online as a panellist in the intersessional side event of the Human Rights Council entitled “Transnational repression and the erosion of human rights: global responses and accountability”, co-hosted by Canada, Costa Rica, Estonia, Japan and Sierra Leone. 112. The Special Rapporteur continued to promote avenues for collaboration with regional and international human rights systems for stronger protection of freedom of religion or belief through improved awareness, harmonization and cross-pollination. This included a trip to Brussels from 8 to 9 December, where she met with Heads of Division and of country desks of the European External Action Service, the European Commission’s coordinators for the dialogue between the Commission and churches, religious associations and non-confessional GE.25-21055 19