A/HRC/36/39 Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Activities of the Working Group from 19 May 2016 to 17 May 2017 .......................................... 3 A. Activities ............................................................................................................................... 3 B. Meetings ............................................................................................................................... 4 C. Communications ................................................................................................................... 4 D. Country visits ........................................................................................................................ 5 E. Follow-up reports and other procedures ............................................................................... 5 F. Press releases and statements ................................................................................................ 6 G. Enforced disappearances in the context of migration ........................................................... 7 Decisions on individual cases taken by the Working Group and communications transmitted to the States concerned during the reporting period ................................................... 11 IV. Observations .................................................................................................................................. 17 V. Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 24 I. Country visit requests and invitations extended ............................................................................ 26 II. Statistical summary: cases of enforced or involuntary disappearance reported to the Working Group between 1980 and 2017, and general allegations transmitted ....................... 28 Graphs showing the number of cases of enforced disappearances per year and per country according to the cases transmitted by the Working Group during the period 1980-17 May 2017 (only countries with more than 100 cases) .................................................................................... 35 III. Annexes III. 2