A/HRC/5/7 page 10 facts surrounding those violations so that the truth may be ascertained and to prevent the disappearance of evidence” (principle 5). In their responses to the note verbale, States give both recent and older examples of commissions of inquiry they have established. 46. Having admitted that people who had disappeared because of their involvement or alleged involvement in political activities in a period between September 1961 and October 1988 had died, Brazil passed a law (No. 10.875/2004 of 24 March 2004) setting up an ad hoc commission to identify the disappeared persons whose names did not appear in the annex to the law, find their bodies and express an opinion on applications for compensation. 47. A decree (No. 4.850/2003 of October 2003) established an inter-ministerial committee for the purpose of obtaining information leading to the location, identification, transport and burial of the remains of people who had taken part in the guerrilla movement in Araguaia. Administrative steps were also taken, including the establishment of a database of biological samples and genetic profiles for use in identifying the human remains of victims of the military regime. 48. Similarly, the Philippines mentions a commission of inquiry into involuntary disappearances, which was responsible for scientific elucidation of the circumstances of each disappearance and for the safe keeping of evidence relating to the identities of the individuals involved and the causes of death. 49. Argentina’s experience led, in connection with the link between the right to the truth and the right to an identity, to the creation of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which has been playing a very important role in seeking out and identifying disappeared persons, locating people killed in extrajudicial executions, helping the courts bring the facts to light and helping, with victims’ families, to establish the truth. Argentina has established a National Commission on the Right to an Identity (Act No. 25.457 of 1992) and a National Genetic Data Bank (Act No. 23.511 of 1987) in which genetic maps of all the families which have lost children in forced disappearances are archived and indexed. 50. From the peace agreement of 10 April 1998 in Ireland (the “Good Friday Agreement”) stemmed moves to acknowledge and tackle the suffering caused to victims of the conflict. A Victims’ Commissioner was appointed to identify what further steps to take to acknowledge and take account of the suffering of those concerned. Later, commissions of inquiry were set up to shed light on the bombings in Dublin and Monaghan and, more generally, on the violence which began in the 1970s. 51. Separately, an independent commission was set up to locate the remains of victims of paramilitary violence. C. Court proceedings 52. Besides setting up truth commissions and non-judicial commissions of inquiry, some States report proceedings brought before national courts against those responsible for war crimes against civilian groups, explaining, where cases might also come under the jurisdiction of an international tribunal, what cooperative mechanisms had been established with the tribunal concerned.