A/HRC/19/58 10. This year, the UN Secretariat would not grant such a waiver, more than one month after the report was finalised by the independent expert members of the Working Group at its 95th session in November 2011. That refusal means that the report is neither edited nor translated into the other United Nations official languages. 11. The regular decision over the years by the UN Secretariat to grant such a waiver was based on the peculiarities of the Working Group's mandate. Compared to other special procedures (with the exception of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention) the Working Group is specifically mandated to deal with individual cases on a humanitarian basis. Those cases are registered in a database and are followed-up every year until clarified. This year, the Working Group is still following up the individual cases of almost 43, 000 persons in 82 States. 12. The report each year gives an account of how the Working Group is fulfilling its humanitarian mandate: it contains communications to and from Member States and statistics on cases. Most of all, it includes the names of those people who have disappeared and whose disappearance was communicated to the Working Group during the reporting period. The fact that these matters and names are not recorded or made public in any other United Nations document, makes the report a unique tool in the fight against enforced disappearances and at the service of Governments and officials as well as civil society. The lack of translation of the report gravely hampers the independence and efficacy of the Working Group in fulfilling its humanitarian and monitoring mandate. 13. The Working Group invites the Human Rights Council to consider the situation and urges the United Nations Secretariat to consider in future the uniqueness of the Working Group's annual report and to grant the waiver as it did in the past. The Working Group encourages Governments and civil society organizations to translate the report in their national languages, so as to provide wider access to the information contained in the Working Group's annual report. 14. The Working Group is concerned that many communications are not still translated in time, thus delaying their consideration by the Working Group and limiting its humanitarian mandate. 15. At the present time, the Working Group’s website remains inadequate. The majority of the content is in English only. The Working Group once again calls on the United Nations to provide adequate resources to make it up to date and more accessible. 16. The Working Group is grateful for the additional human resources given to it during part of the reporting period. However it notes that the cumulative effect of lack of adequate staff during the past three years has led to a backlog of more than 650 cases, for this reason it wishes to emphasize that the additional support needs to be sustained in the future. II. Activities of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances: 13 November 2010 to 11 November 2011 A. Activities 17. During the period under review, the Working Group held three sessions: the ninetythird from 15 to 18 March 2011, in Mexico City; the ninety-fourth from 4 to 8 July 2011, in Geneva; and the ninety-fifth from 1 to 11 November 2011, also in Geneva. 18. As from 1 August 2009, the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group is Mr. Jeremy Sarkin and, as from 8 July 2011, the Vice-Chair is Mr. Olivier de Frouville. The other members are Mr. Ariel Dulitzky, Ms. Jasminka Dzumhur and Mr. Osman El-Hajjé. 8