A/HRC/32/36/Add.3 I. Introduction 1. The present document is submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 24/5. The document provides observations on the communications addressed by the Special Rapporteur to States, and on the replies received. 2. In the present addendum, the Special Rapporteur provides observations, on communications sent to States between 1 March 2015 and 29 February 2016. This report further contains observations on responses to the aforementioned communications received from States until 30 May 2016. The addendum also includes press releases issued between 1 May 2015 and 30 April 2016. Communications sent, responses received and press releases during the reporting period are accessible electronically through hyperlinks to the relevant reports below. The Special Rapporteur is aware of responses received after the reporting deadline that could not be reflected in the present report. He takes this opportunity to highlight the importance of timely replies. 3. For ease of reference, cases have been grouped by region, with countries within each region listed alphabetically according to their names in English. Each communication is referenced as an urgent appeal (UA), joint urgent appeal (JUA), allegation letter (AL), joint allegation letter (JAL), or other letter (OL), followed by the date the communication was issued, the case number and the date of the State reply. Press releases (PR) published during the reporting period are referenced below the communications in chronological order. 4. The communications and the relevant replies can also be accessed via the incorporated links or in the communications reports of Special Procedures:1 A/HRC/30/27 (communications sent from 1 March 2015 to 31 May 2015 and replies received from 1 May 2015 to 31 July 2015), A/HRC/31/79 (communications sent from 1 June 2014 to 30 November 2015 and replies received from 1 August 2015 to 31 January 2016), and A/HRC/32/53 (communications sent from 1 December 2015 and 28 February 2016 and replies received between 1 February 2016 and 30 April 2016). 5. The Special Rapporteur is grateful to all States that have transmitted responses to communications sent. He considers response to his communications an important part of cooperation by States with his mandate. In this context, the Special Rapporteur recalls paragraph 6 of the Human Rights Council resolution 24/5 that calls upon States “to continue to cooperate fully with and assist him in the performance of his mandate [and] to respond promptly to his urgent appeals and other communications…” Therefore, he urges all States which have not yet replied to his communications to do so without further delay. II. Summary 6. Between 1 March 2015 and 29 February 2016, the Special Rapporteur sent 158 communications to 70 States. Of these communications, 65 were urgent appeals, 93 were allegation and other letters. A total of 57 cases consisted of follow-ups of cases that were previously the subject of communications. 7. Examined by region, the figures show that 32 communications were addressed to countries in the Africa region (20 per cent), 29 to countries in the Americas region (19 per cent), 47 in the Asia-Pacific region (30 per cent), 23 in the Middle East and North Africa region (15 per cent), and 25 in the Europe and Central Asia region (16 per cent). 1 http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/CommunicationsreportsSP.aspx. 5