A/HRC/38/44/Add.3 • Dialogue between the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and United Nations Human Rights mechanisms on sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex (26 to 28 March 2018, Washington D.C., United States of America), • Expert Drafting Group and Colloquium on the Rights of Missing and Dead Migrants and Refugees organized by Last Rights (10 to 11 May 2018, Lesvos, Greece), • Working Group on Security and Human Rights, as part of the 25 th anniversary celebration of the World Conference on Human Rights, organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the City of Vienna and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (22 to 23 May 2018, Vienna, Austria), • 2018 World Congress on Justice for Children: “Strengthening Justice Systems for Children: Challenges, including disengagement from violent extremism”, participated as a member of the Committee of Honour (28 to 30 May 2018, Paris, France). II. Observations on communications A. Introduction 8. The present report contains observations by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions 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. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur sent 122 communications to 55 States and 3 other actors. Out of this total, 110 communications were sent jointly with other mandates, while 12 communications were sent by this mandate alone. Of all communications sent, 61 were urgent appeals, 50 were allegation letters and 11 were other letters. 9. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur offers her observations on the communications sent and the replies received during the reporting period as well as patterns observed. These observations are based on two tables detailing the correspondence sent and received during the period under review: Tabulation (A) in section III of the present report details cases transmitted and replies received to communications sent during the reporting period, and Tabulation (B) in section IV of the report details cases transmitted to States concerning alleged violations of death penalty safeguards B. Observations on all cases (Tabulation A) 1. Numbers of communications sent and replies received 10. The communications report of special procedures provides basic statistics with respect to the responsiveness of States overall to different mandates. 3 With respect to this mandate, the Special Rapporteur received responses to 75 out of 122 communications sent within the reporting period. She thanks all Governments who have replied to her communications for their cooperation. Forty-seven of the communications are yet to be responded to. In the same period, the Special Rapporteur also received replies to 6 previous communications, i.e. sent prior to the reporting period, for which she is grateful. This means the overall timely response rate for communications sent by this mandate is 3 The communications reports of special procedures can be found here: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/CommunicationsreportsSP.aspx. 5