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2.
The Special Rapporteur is currently developing this framework for communications into
an online digest, which is intended to illustrate the international standards with pertinent excerpts
of the mandate-holders’ findings since 1986 according to the categories of the framework for
communications. The online digest will be available on the website of the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/religion/standards.htm).
The Special Rapporteur hopes that uploading the framework for communications onto the
OHCHR website will make the legal basis of freedom of religion or belief as well as the mandate
practice more readily accessible for Governments and for civil society worldwide.
3.
Owing to restrictions on the length of documents, the Special Rapporteur has been
obliged to summarize the communications sent and received. As a result, replies from
Governments could not be published in their entirety. The names of alleged victims are reflected
in this report, although exceptions may be made in relation to children and other victims of
violence in relation to whom publication would be problematic.