A/70/255 she called upon Sri Lanka to adopt urgent measures to stop the promotion of racial and faith-based hatred and violence against Muslim and Christian communities by Buddhist groups with extremist views. 49. Also in July 2014, the Special Rapporteur expressed, along with other United Nations experts, her concerns about the physical safety of several minority groups in Iraq, including Christians, Shia, Shabaks, Turk men and Yazidis, which were subjected to abductions, killings or the confiscation of their property by extremist groups. In August 2014, she called for urgent measures to avoid a mass atrocity and potential genocide. 50. On 2 August 2014, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary commemoration of the Roma Holocaust, the Special Rapporteur, together with the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, called for stronger measures to keep the memory of the Roma Holocaust alive and to enable survivors, Roma communities and others to mark it in a recognized and dignified manner. 51. In December 2014, the Special Rapporteur, along with other mandate holders, expressed concerns over the decision not to bring to trial the cases of Mi chael Brown and Eric Garner in the United States of America, stating that the decisions had left many with legitimate concerns relating to a pattern of impunity when the victims of the excessive use of force came from African-American or other minority communities. 52. In June 2015, the Special Rapporteur, together with the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, the Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, expressed grave concern a t the ongoing threat to the safety of minority groups in the Syrian Arab Republic, including Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, Druze, Ismailis and Kurds. VI. Forum on Minority Issues 53. The Forum on Minority Issues was established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 6/15 and renewed pursuant to its resolution 19/23 of 23 March 2012. The Forum provides an annual platform for dialogue and cooperation on issues pertaining to persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. 54. At its sixth session, held on 26 and 27 November 2013 under the theme “Beyond freedom of religion or belief: guaranteeing the rights of religious minorities”, the Forum on Minority Issues addressed challenges relating to religious minorities, including from the perspective of respect for the right to freedom of religion or belief. The goal of the session was to identify measures to guarantee the rights of members of religious minorities to security. The discussions covered various minority rights issues, including the rising tide of violent attacks against members of religious minorities in several countries. 55. The theme of the seventh session of the Forum, held on 25 and 26 November 2014, was “Preventing and addressing violence and atrocity cr imes targeted against minorities” in order to increase awareness of the obligation of States under international law to strengthen institutional and policy frameworks for the protection of minority rights. In keeping with past practice, the recommendations of 12/14 15-12580