A/HRC/7/28 page 5 I. ACTIVITIES DURING THE PERIOD OF REVIEW 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 1/102 and resolution 5/1, in which the Council decided to extend exceptionally for two successive years the mandates and mandate-holders of all the special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights. A. Communications transmitted to Governments 2. Between 2 December 2006 and 10 December 2007, the Special Representative sent 372 communications, dealing with the cases of 835 defenders. Communications were sent to 76 countries, and at the time of writing of the present report, 49 of them had provided her with responses to one or more communications. All communications sent and responses received during the period covered by this report are included in addendum 1 to the present report (A/HRC/7/27/Add.1). B. Country visits 3. During the reporting period, the Special Representative visited Indonesia (5-12 June 2007), the Republic of Serbia, including Kosovo (17-21 September 2007), and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (24-25 September 2007) as a follow-up to her first visit of January 2003. Separate reports on these visits have been submitted to the current session of the Council as addenda to the present document. C. Cooperation with the United Nations system and intergovernmental organizations 4. The Special Representative cooperated with bodies of the United Nations and intergovernmental organizations. She was invited to participate in conferences, workshops, seminars and round tables with these organizations on issues related to her mandate. 5. The Special Representative was appointed as one of the seven members of the group of experts which was established pursuant to resolution 4/8 of the Human Rights Council on 30 March 2007 to “ensure the effective follow-up to and to foster the implementation of resolutions and recommendations on Darfur, as adopted by the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Human Rights and other United Nations human rights institutions, as well as to promote the implementation of relevant recommendations of other United Nations human rights mechanisms, taking into account the needs of the Sudan in this regard, to safeguard the consistency of these recommendations and contributing to monitoring the human rights situation on the ground” (para. 7 of the resolution). The Group of Experts met in March, June, October and November 2007, and presented three reports to the Human Rights Council.1 6. In March 2007, the Special Representative presented her report to the fourth session of the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/4/37 and Add.1 and 2) 1 A/HRC/5/6, A/HRC/6/7 and A/HRC/6/19.