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10.
At the present time, the Working Group’s website remains inadequate. The majority
of the content is in English only. The Working Group calls on the United Nations to
provide adequate resources to make it more accessible.
II.
Activities of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary
Disappearances: 14 November 2009 to 12 November 2010
A.
Activities
11.
During the period under review, the Working Group held three sessions:
the ninetieth from 15 to 19 March 2010 in Geneva, the ninety-first from 22 to 25 June 2010,
in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the ninety-second from 3 to 12 November 2010,
in Geneva.
12.
As from 1 August 2009, the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group is Mr. Jeremy
Sarkin. The other members are Mr. Ariel Dulitzky, Ms. Jasminka Dzumhur, Mr. Osman ElHajjé and Mr. Olivier de Frouville.
13.
On 8 March 2010, the Chair-Rapporteur presented the Working Group’s 2009
annual report to the tenth session of the Human Rights Council and participated in the
interactive dialogue with Member States. During the reporting period, the Chair-Rapporteur
presented 15 conference papers including a paper on Enhancing Cooperation between UN
Special Procedures and Regional Human Rights Systems to the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights Workshop on Enhancing cooperation between regional
and international mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights - A
consultation for Africa, in Addis Abba, Ethiopia in November 2009. He also gave
presentations at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan in January; at a seminar in Windhoek,
Namibia, in February; and at various side events at the Human Rights Council in March. He
presented a paper on “Information sharing between existing regional human rights
mechanisms and the international human rights system” to the United Nations Human
Rights Council Workshop “Enhancing cooperation between the International Human Rights
System and Regional Human Rights Mechanisms”, at the United Nations Office at Geneva
in May. He gave a number of presentations in Jakarta, Indonesia, in May and was the
keynote speaker at the Aim for Human Rights Conference on Disappearances in Africa, in
Geneva, in June. He also presented a number of training sessions throughout the year.
14.
On 10 March 2010, Mr. Olivier de Frouville delivered a presentation during a panel
discussion on the right to truth organized by the Human Rights Council at its thirteenth
session. On 3 August 2010, he addressed the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights
Council on the issue of missing persons and enforced disappearances.
15.
On 26 January 2010, Mr. Osman El-Hajjé addressed the Advisory Committee on the
Human Rights Council on the issue of missing persons and enforced disappearances. From
16 to 18 April 2010, he organized and coordinated a seminar on Human Rights
International Mechanisms at the Centre for Human Rights in the University of Jinane,
Lebanon. In September 2010, he participated in a round table on the issue of enforced
disappearances at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy.
16.
On 18 March 2010, the Working Group hosted a side event at the 13th session of the
Human Rights Council on “Thirty years between hope and despair: the experience of the
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.” Members of the Working
Group as well as representatives of Member States, civil society and relatives of
disappeared persons participated in this side event.
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