A/HRC/39/46 Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances* Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Activities of the Working Group from 18 May 2017 to 2 May 2018 ............................................ 3 A. Activities ............................................................................................................................... 3 B. Meetings ............................................................................................................................... 4 C. Communications ................................................................................................................... 4 D. Country visits ........................................................................................................................ 5 E. Follow-up reports and other procedures ............................................................................... 5 F. Press releases and statements ................................................................................................ 5 G. Interim report on standards and public policies for an effective investigation of enforced disappearances............................................................... 7 Decisions on individual cases taken by the Working Group and communications transmitted to the States concerned during the reporting period ................................................... 12 IV. Observations .................................................................................................................................. 18 V. Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 25 I. Country visit requests and invitations extended ............................................................................ 27 II. Statistical summary: cases of enforced or involuntary disappearance reported to the Working Group between 1980 and 2018, and general allegations transmitted ....................... 29 Graphs showing the number of cases of enforced disappearances by country and by year according to the cases transmitted by the Working Group during the period between 1980 and 2 May 2018 (only for countries with more than 100 cases transmitted) ................................. 35 III. Annexes III. * The annexes to the present report are circulated without formal editing in the language of submission only. 2