OHCHR | Country visits

Country visits and reports

Country visits are mandated activities carried out by the Special Rapporteur to get an in-depth understanding of country specific contexts of freedom of religion or belief. Each year, the expert can carry out up to two country visits. The visits are announced via upcoming visits and media advisory.

At the end of each country visit, the expert will present preliminary findings to the press, this includes a press release and an end of mission (EOM) statement. The expert will present the country visit reports to the Human Rights Council in March session each year.

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Terms of Reference for country visits by Special procedures

Completed visits

Date	Country	Press release / Statement	Report	Comments from States & NHRC / Follow-up
15/08/19 to 26/08/19	Sri Lanka	Media Advisory Sinhala \| Tamil Press release English \| Sinhala \| Tamil EOM Statement English \| Sinhala	A/HRC/43/48/Add.2
28/03/19 to 05/04/19	The Netherlands	Press release English \| Dutch EOM Statement	A/HRC/43/48/Add.1
09/04/18 to 19/04/18	Tunisia		A/HRC/40/58/Add.1	A/HRC/40/58/Add.2
02/10/17 to 12/10/17	Uzbekistan		A/HRC/37/49/Add.2	A/HRC/37/49/Add.4
08/05/17 to 17/05/17	Albania		A/HRC/37/49/Add.1	A/HRC/37/49/Add.3
13/03/16 to 22/03/16	Denmark		A/HRC/34/50/Add.1	A/HRC/34/50/Add.2
31/08/15 to 09/09/15	Bangladesh		A/HRC/31/18/Add.2	A/HRC/31/18/Add.4
23/03/15 to 02/04/15	Lebanon		A/HRC/31/18/Add.1	A/HRC/31/18/Add.3
21/07/14 to 31/07/14	Viet Nam		A/HRC/28/66/Add.2 Vietnamese	A/HRC/28/66/Add.4 Vietnamese
25/03/14 to 04/04/14	Kazakhstan		A/HRC/28/66/Add.1	A/HRC/28/66/Add.3
02/09/13 to 10/09/13	Jordan		A/HRC/25/58/Add.2	A/HRC/25/58/Add.4
30/06/13 to 05/07/13	Sierra Leone		A/HRC/25/58/Add.1	A/HRC/25/58/Add.3
29/03/12 to 09/04/12	Cyprus		A/HRC/22/51/Add.1	A/HRC/22/51/Add.2 Follow-up
01/09/11 to 08/09/11	Republic of Moldova		A/HRC/19/60/Add.2	A/HRC/19/60/Add.3
23/03/11 to 30/03/11	Paraguay		A/HRC/19/60/Add.1
23/11/09 to 30/11/09	Lao People's Democratic Republic		A/HRC/13/40/Add.4	Follow-up
26/04/09 to 29/04/09	Republic of Serbia, including visit until Kosovo		A/HRC/13/40/Add.3	Follow-up
26/04/09 to 29/04/09	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia		A/HRC/13/40/Add.2	Follow-up
04/09/08 to 10/09/08	Turkmenistan		A/HRC/10/8/Add.4	Follow-up
03/03/08 to 20/03/08	India		A/HRC/10/8/Add.3	Follow-up
20/01/08 to 27/01/08	Israel and OPT		A/HRC/10/8/Add.2	Follow-up
20/11/07 to 27/11/07	Angola		A/HRC/7/10/Add.4	Follow-up
04/06/07 to 15/06/07	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland		A/HRC/7/10/Add.3	Follow-up
26/02/07 to 01/03/07	Tajikistan		A/HRC/7/10/Add.2	Follow-up
06/08/06 to 10/08/06	Maldives		A/HRC/4/21/Add.3	Follow-up
26/02/06 to 05/03/06	Azerbaijan		A/HRC/4/21/Add.2	Follow-up
18/09/05 to 29/09/05	France		E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.4	Follow-up
02/05/05 to 12/05/05	Sri Lanka		E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.3	Follow-up
27/02/05 to 07/03/05	Nigeria		E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.2	Follow-up
07/09/03 to 13/09/03	Romania		E/CN.4/2004/63/Add.2
31/08/03 to 07/09/03	Georgia		E/CN.4/2004/63/Add.1
16/09/02 to 26/09/02	Algeria		E/CN.4/2003/66/Add.1
23/04/01 to 30/04/01	Argentina		E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.1
15/5/2000 to 24/5/2000	Bangladesh		A/55/280/Add.2
30/11/99 to 09/12/99	Turkey		A/55/280/Add.1
19/10/98 to 28/10/98	Viet Nam		E/CN.4/1999/58/Add.2
22/01/98 to 06/02/98	United States of America		E/CN.4/1999/58/Add.1
17/09/97 to 27/09/97	Germany		E/CN.4/1998/6/Add.2	Follow-up
17/02/97 to 01/03/97	Australia		E/CN.4/1998/6/Add.1	Follow-up
02/12/96 to 14/12/96	India		E/CN.4/1997/91/Add.1	Follow-up
18/06/96 to 25/06/96	Greece		A/51/542/Add.1	Follow-up
19/09/96 to 24/09/96	Sudan		A/51/542/Add.2	Follow-up
15/12/95 to 22/12/95	Islamic Republic of Iran		E/CN.4/1996/95/Add.2	Follow-up
12/06/95 to 22/06/95	Pakistan		E/CN.4/1996/95/Add.1	Follow-up
19/11/94 to 30/11/94	China		E/CN.4/1995/91	Follow-up

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Islamophobia (2021)

FORB and SDGs (2020)

Gender equality (2020)

Combatting antisemitism (2019)

Restrictions imposed on expression (2019)

National security (2018)

State-religion relationships (2018)

Issues in focus

Freedom of religion or belief and Gender Equality

Religion and Freedom of Religion or Belief Literacy

Hate speech

Antisemitism

Contact information

Mr. Ahmed Shaheed
Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations at Geneva
8-14 avenue de la Paix
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Fax: (+41) 22 917 90 06
E-mail: freedomofreligion@ohchr.org