3
Albania
1
1
Algeria
3 139
Bahrain
Bangladesh
40
3 179
2
2
Response to other
letter
Response to general
allegation
Response to urgent
appeal
Response to prompt
intervention letter
Other letter
General allegation
Urgent appeal
Communications received during
the period under review
1
2
3 244
1
4
3
34
3
13
1
157
3 241
3
4
1
49
Belarus
3
3
Bhutan27
5
0
28
28
Bolivia
(Plurinational
State of)
1
1
1
1
1
Urgent actions are cases of enforced disappearances that have occurred within three months prior to the receipt of a report by the Working Group; or cases of enforced
disappearances that have occurred prior to the three-month limit, but within one year prior to the receipt of a report by the Working Group, provided that there is a
link with a case that occurred within the three-month period. Standard cases are cases of enforced disappearances that have occurred prior to the three-month limit.
Prompt intervention letters concern cases of intimidation, persecution or reprisal against families of disappeared persons, witnesses, lawyers, human rights defenders
and other individuals concerned with disappearances. Urgent appeals concern allegations of enforced disappearances; or allegations regarding persons deprived of
liberty who are at risk of being disappeared. General allegations concern alleged obstacles encountered in the implementation of the Declaration.
The Working Group decided at its 110th session to transfer three cases from Argentina to Uruguay.
The Working Group decided at its 111th session to transfer five cases from Bhutan to India.
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Urgent Standard
actions
cases
Number of
Number of
cases of
possible
outstanding
clarification by cases at the end
Government
of the period
under review
Government Sources (6-month rule)
Cases clarified
during the period
under review by:
3
Argentina26
26
Cases transmitted
to the Government
during the
reporting period
Afghanistan
Angola
25
Communications sent during
the period under review
Prompt intervention
letter
Countries
Number of outstanding cases at
the beginning of the period
under review
III. Decisions on individual cases taken by the Working Group and communications transmitted to the
States concerned during the reporting period25
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