A/78/207 exchange of information on priorities, country situations and po tential collaboration. The Special Rapporteur added her name to a number of joint letters with other mandate holders on gender-related matters. 103 123. Since January, the Special Rapporteur has initiated or joined 18 communications addressed to Governments in relation to a range of violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief. 104 B. Conferences, seminars and media engagement 124. The Special Rapporteur has attended numerous in-person conferences in 2023, including in Belgium, Germany, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), Portugal and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Some of those activities are outlined below. 125. The Special Rapporteur participated in the International Conference on Religion and Freedom of Expression held in Lisbon on 7 and 8 February, hosted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and organized by the International Association for the Defence of Religious Liberty. 126. The Special Rapporteur participated in the Munich Security Confer ence in Germany, at a side event panel held on 17 February and organized by the Sovereign Order of Malta, outlining the role that faith-based institutions can play in conflict resolution, peacemaking and human rights protection. 127. On 1 March, she gave the Theo van Boven lecture, organized by the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights of Maastricht University, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in honour of the Centre’s founder. 128. On 15 March, she attended a public event, entitled “Islamophobia: discourse , debates and future directions”, at the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights at Oxford University, to mark the first International Day to Combat Islamophobia. 129. She participated as speaker, panellist and moderator at the International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief, which was organized by the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and held in Nairobi from 1 to 4 May. 130. The Special Rapporteur has continued to strengthen her engagement with IPU. She actively participated in the Parliamentary Conference on Interfaith Dialogue, which was hosted by the Parliament of Morocco and held in Marrakech from 13 to 15 June. 105 131. On 19 and 20 June, the Special Rapporteur conducted an academic visit to Brussels, upon the invitation of the European Union. During the visit, she discussed the work of the mandate and future collaboration with several high -level European Union officials, including the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights and the European Union Coordinator on combating anti-Muslim hatred, 106 as well as policy officers in charge of different geographic regions. In addition, she __________________ 103 104 105 106 23-14116 See, for example, www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/women/sr/activities/ srvawg-general-guidance-note-csw67.pdf; and www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/ issues/women/wg/Submission-Inter-American-Court-Human-Rights-2023.pdf (in Spanish only, relating to a blanket prohibition of abortion). See https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/. She also delivered a recorded video keynote address for the 146th IPU Assembly, held on 12 March in Manama. On 23 June, she also met online with the Special Representative of the Secretary -General of the Council of Europe on antisemitic, anti-Muslim and other forms of religious intolerance and hate crimes. 23/24