A/HRC/52/27 Autonomous Region; the Forum on the Participation of NGOs in the Ordinary Sessions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the Gambia; the conference on stopping the diminishing linguistic diversity in Europe and on promoting the rights of national and linguistic minorities organized by the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages; and the international stocktaking round table on Roma and memorialization: advancing recognition and remedy for the dark chapters of the past and their impact on the present. 15. He also contributed to other initiatives in his capacity as Special Rapporteur such as, at the invitation of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, adding to the revision of the Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes and helping to draft new guidelines on the social and economic participation of national minorities for the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. III. Thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities 16. The President of the General Assembly, Csaba Körösi, opened a high-level meeting to mark the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on 21 September 2022. 17. It was the first-ever such high-level event since the adoption of the Declaration 30 years ago, however, the tone was less than celebratory with the Secretary-General, António Guterres, observing “that – thirty years on – the world is falling short. Far short. We are not dealing with gaps – we are dealing with outright inaction and negligence in the protection of minority rights”, and Ilze Brands-Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, saying that after 30 years, the commitment laid out in the Declaration remains unfulfilled and that “Member State and multilateral action is urgently needed to raise the priority of minority rights on the global agenda” with the United Nations system itself needing to step up and promise joint action across the entire Organization. 18. For his part, the Special Rapporteur noted that there had been little or no significant development institutionally at the United Nations to advance the protection of minorities when compared with other marginalized groups, with widespread views expressed by most minority rights activists and representatives of the urgent need to mainstream the protection of the rights of minorities at the United Nations and further develop initiatives and mechanisms to better ensure the protection of minority rights as had increasingly been the case for other marginalized groups. IV. Update on the Forum on Minority Issues and regional forums on minority issues 19. In his 2018 report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur identified the need for a regional approach to complement the Forum on Minority Issues in order to make the Forum more accessible to minorities in different parts of the world and more receptive to regional concerns and contexts,3 and broaden the participation of minorities, experts, States and international organizations in the principal review mechanism of the Declaration, namely the Forum. Participation is geared towards the drafting of regional recommendations on select minority rights discussed annually by the Forum. These regional recommendations also serve to inform the work of the Special Rapporteur, as well as of the Forum in Geneva. 20. The first steps towards implementing such an approach were taken in 2019, when three regional forums were held. The uncertainties in 2020 owing to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in holding only two out of the four regional forums envisaged on the thematic priority of tackling hate speech and incitement to hatred against persons belonging to minorities through social media. Four regional forums were held in 3 4 A/HRC/37/66, para. 64.