A/71/269 relationship between the various human rights issues involved in the area of sexuality and freedom of religion or belief, both at the normative level and at the level of personal experience. Religious leaders and representatives, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex activists, academics, legal experts and diplomats at the conference discussed openly how to overcome the misperception of an abstract normative dichotomy and identify possible synergies between commitment on behalf of freedom of religion or belief and rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. 8. On 13 and 14 June 2016, the Special Rapporteur delivered a presentatio n at a high-level seminar on the protection and promotion of human rights in culturally diverse societies, held in Strasbourg, France, by the Council of Europe. On 29 and 30 June, he attended the launch of the annual report on the state of freedom of religion or belief in the world issued by the European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance. On 19 July, he addressed the Human Dimension Committee of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna and gave a presentation on the theme “The interrelatedness of democracy and human rights: freedom of religion or belief as a test case for Europe ”. III. The broad range of violations of freedom of religion or belief, their root causes and variables 9. After six years of sending individual communications, conducting country visits and drafting thematic reports, the Special Rapporteur does not think it would be possible to provide a “global map” of existing violations of freedom of religion or belief. The forms, motives and root causes of violations differ widely and cannot be captured adequately by “cartographic” projects, some of which try to depict degrees of violations in analogy to the height of mountains or the depth of the ocean. The main purpose of the present report is to sensitize readers to the complexity of human rights violations in the area of freedom of religion or belief. While some types of violations attract wide public attention, including within the international community, others are hardly known, even among human rights experts. 10. Sensitization to the complexity of human rights violations in the area of freedom of religion or belief first requires clarification of the normative scope and contours of this human right as it has been enshrined in article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other international human rights instruments. The scope of the right to freedom of religion or belief is often underestimated, with negative implications for its conceptualization and implementation. For instance, some Governments narrowly focus on individualistic and private dimensions of freedom of religion or belief while paying inadequate attention to community -related, institutional and infrastructural aspects of religious life. By contrast, other Governments place all the emphasis on recognizing collective religious identities, thus missing the crucial element of personal freedom even though it figures in the title of freedom of religion or belief. Yet other Governments privilege one particular religion or belief — or one particular type of religion — by promoting it as part of the national heritage, thereby ignoring the principles of equality and non-discrimination that are spelled out in some detail in the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or 4/22 16-13296