A/HRC/42/40 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Activities of the Working Group from 3 May 2018 to 22 May 2019 ............................................ 3 A. Activities ............................................................................................................................... 3 B. Meetings ............................................................................................................................... 4 C. Communications ................................................................................................................... 4 D. Country visits ........................................................................................................................ 5 E. Follow-up reports and other procedures ............................................................................... 6 F. Press releases and statements ................................................................................................ 6 Decisions on individual cases taken by the Working Group and communications transmitted to the States concerned during the reporting period ................................................... 9 IV. Observations .................................................................................................................................. 15 V. Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 20 I Country visit requests and invitations extended ............................................................................ 22 II Statistical summary: cases of enforced or involuntary disappearance reported to the Working Group between 1980 and 2019, and general allegations transmitted ............................. 24 Graphs showing the number of cases of enforced disappearance by country and by year according to the cases transmitted by the Working Group between 1980 and 22 May 2019 (only for countries with more than 100 cases transmitted) ..................................... 30 III. Annexes III 2