A/HRC/41/41 II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur A. Country visits 7. The Special Rapporteur visited Tunisia from 17 to 28 September 2018 (see A/HRC/41/41/Add.3) and Armenia from 7 to 16 November 2018 (see A/HRC/41/41/Add.4). He thanks both Governments for their cooperation before and during the visits. B. Communications 8. The Special Rapporteur sent a total of 130 communications to 60 States between 1 April 2018 and 25 April 2019. His observations on communications addressed to States, and the replies received, are contained in an addendum to the present report (A/HRC/41/41/Add.1). C. Participation in various events 9. The Special Rapporteur took part in the following events, among many others: (a) An academic visit to Brazil from 16 to 20 July 2018; (b) The Swiss Development Cooperation conference on shrinking civic space and an enabling environment for civil society, held in Bern on 13 and 14 September 2018; (c) The sixty-third session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, held in Banjul from 24 to 26 October 2018, and the sixty-fourth session of the Commission, held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on 24 April 2019; (d) The session at the Global Human Rights Defenders Summit entitled “Making our space great again: addressing shrinking space, restrictive laws and restrictions on funding – actual situation and main issues for next 20 years”, which took place in Paris on 30 October 2018; (e) The “Civic Space under Attack” conference, held at the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges, the Netherlands, on 21 November 2018; (f) The Forum on Business and Human Rights, held in Geneva from 26 to 28 November 2018; (g) The International Organization of la Francophonie event to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, held in New York on 10 December 2018; (h) Regional dialogues with civil society and governments from the Asia-Pacific region on the impact of restriction to civic space, freedom of opinion, expression and assembly to elections, organized by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and held in Bangkok on 20 and 21 December 2018; (i) The annual conference of Frivillighet Norge, the Norwegian association of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), with the theme “Can NGOs save democracy?”, held in Oslo on 14 February 2019; (j) The International Conference on Claiming Civic Space Together, held in Copenhagen on 4 and 5 March 2019; (k) The 172nd session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, held in Kingston from 6 to 10 May 2019. 3