A/HRC/40/38/Add.1 Mandate Description of events organized by mandate holders Special Rapporteur on minority In May, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues organized a two-day regional issues expert consultation workshop on the theme of statelessness and minority rights. The workshop’s outcome and recommendations were used to assist the drafting of the Special Rapporteur’s 2018 annual report to the UN General Assembly that addressed statelessness from a minority perspective (A/73/205). This consultation provided the opportunity to consult and share views with relevant partners and stakeholders in their areas of expertise with a view toward informing and shaping the report. The report also provided substantive input into the 11th UN Forum on Minority Issues, which was on the same topic, held from 29 to 30 November in Geneva. The 11th UN Forum on Minority Issues, which attracted more than 600 participants, was convened on the theme “Statelessness: A Minority Issue”. It was chaired by Ms. Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, the former Special Rapporteur on minority issues and current member of CERD, and guided by the current Special Rapporteur. As statelessness is a human rights issue that disproportionately affects minorities around the world, the Forum aimed at addressing the interrelatedness and interconnection between the promotion and protection of the human rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities and statelessness. Special Rapporteur on the right From 18 to 19 January, the Special Rapporteur hosted a meeting in Rome on his to privacy proposed “Draft Legal Instrument on Government-led Surveillance and Privacy”, where he presented a preliminary text for its discussion by practitioners, academics and civil society organizations. From 12 to 14 February, the Special Rapporteur hosted the final meeting on his EUfunded MAPPING Project (Managing Alternatives for Privacy, Property and Internet Governance) in Malta, where he discussed his “Draft Legal Instrument on Government-led Surveillance and Privacy”, cyber-security, and EU as well as Council of Europe legal frameworks on privacy, freedom of expression online and encryption, etc. with corporations, practitioners, academics and civil society organizations. From 5 to 6 September, the Special Rapporteur hosted a meeting of his Taskforce on the Use of Personal Data by Corporations in Malta with members of academia, business corporations and civil society organizations. Topics included business models and personal data, encryption and self-regulation. From 29 to 30 November, the Special Rapporteur hosted the Third International Intelligence Oversight Forum (IIOF) at the Parliament of Malta, which was attended by over 55 participants from Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, including members of national intelligence, oversight bodies and intelligence agencies, academics and representatives of civil society organizations. The theme of the Third Forum in 2018 was “Latest Challenges to Intelligence Oversight in a Democracy”, and topics included training, cooperation and intelligence sharing, data protection and retention in law enforcement, etc. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance On 22 March, the Special Rapporteur co-organized, with Columbia University and the US Human Rights Network, a civil society organization (CSO) consultation in New York on “setting an international human rights anti-racism agenda in the shadow of populist nationalism”. On 3 July, during the 38th session of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur organized a CSO consultation on populist nationalism. On 4 July, the Special Rapporteur, along with the OHCHR migration team and Mexico, co-organized a side event on “challenging contemporary forms of racism, including laws, policies, practices and narratives against migrants and others associated with migration” during the 38th session of the Human Rights Council. During the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur convened two side events. In the first event, she convened an informal consultation 71