A/HRC/38/44/Add.3 I. Activities of the Special Rapporteur 1. The present report covers the main activities undertaken by the Special Rapporteur since 1 March 2017, including activities undertaken in preparation of her most recent thematic report on the unlawful death of refugees and migrants to the General Assembly (A/72/335). Information on earlier activities can be found in her previous report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/35/23). A. Country visits 2. The Special Rapporteur carried out official visits to the Republic of Iraq from 14 to 23 November 2017 (A/HRC/38/44/Add.1), and to El Salvador from 25 January to 5 February 2018 (A/HRC/38/44/Add.2), at the invitation of the respective Governments. 3. The Special Rapporteur sent requests for official visits to the Governments of Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, the United States of America, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Syrian Arab Republic, and reminders to Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya and the Republic of Yemen.1 She welcomes the positive response received from Nigeria on 4 June 2018. She regrets that, at the time of submission of the present report, she had not received responses from the other aforementioned states. 4. She thanks the Government of Mozambique for responding positively during the reporting period to her request for a visit sent prior and encourages other Governments who have yet to respond to her requests to consider extending an invitation for a visit in the near future. B. Communications 5. Observations on communications sent between 1 March 2017 and 28 February 2018 and responses received from States and other actors between 1 May 2017 and 30 April 2018 are contained in section II of this report. C. Press releases 6. During the reporting period, the Special Rapporteur issued, alone or jointly, 51 press statements. They raised a variety of themes and country specific issues, including: • The imposition of the death penalty – for crimes that do not meet the threshold of “most serious crimes”, after trials that reportedly did not meet fair trial and due process standards, on child offenders and persons with psycho-social disabilities, as well as extraditions of persons to countries where they risk receiving the death penalty, • Death threats against and attacks on media professionals, journalists and human rights defenders, • Unlawful deaths and killings, including of migrants and refugees, LGBTI persons and women, • 1 State’s failure to protect, including legislation, Libya transmitted on 11 October 2017; Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Yemen transmitted on 17 May 2018; Syrian Arab Republic transmitted on 18 May 2018; the others on 20 March 2018. 3