A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 I. Introduction 1. This document contains information supplied by Governments, civil society and other stakeholders, relating to the follow-up measures to the recommendations made by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, following its country visits. In paragraph 7 a) of its Resolution 7/12, the Human Rights Council requested Governments that have accepted visits “to give all necessary attention to the Working Group’s recommendations” and invited them to inform the Working Group of “any action they take on those recommendations”. The Human Rights council reiterates this request in paragraph 16 a) of its Resolution 21/4. Resolution 36/6 renews the mandate of the Working Group in conformity with the terms set forth in Human Rights Council resolution 7/12. 2. The Working Group decided in 2010 to adopt the present format to its followup reports with the aim of rendering it reader-friendly and of facilitating the identification of concrete steps taken in response to the specific recommendations and to reflect the opinions of the different actors involved in the process. For this reason, follow-up tables have been created. The tables contain the recommendations of the Working Group, a brief description of the situation when the country visit was undertaken, an overview of the steps taken on the basis of the information gathered by the Working Group both from governmental and non-governmental sources, and the observations of the Working Group on the level of implementation of the recommendations. 3. The Working Group continues to offer its assistance to the Governments that have received a visit, to comply with the recommendations made and stands ready to assist them in their efforts to prevent and combat the heinous crime of enforced disappearance. II. Sri Lanka Follow-up to the recommendations made by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in the report of its visit to Sri Lanka from 9 to 18 November 2015 (A/HRC/33/51/Add.2) 4. On 29 November 2018, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances requested the Government of Sri Lanka to provide information on measures taken to implement the recommendations that were made in the report A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 (paragraphs 77 - 84), after its visit to the country in November 2019. On 7 June 2019, the Government of Sri Lanka provided the requested information. On 11 July 2019 the Government provided additional information, and on 27 June 2019 the Office of Missing Persons provided an additional response. On 6 August 2019, the Working Group sent the below table for comments to the Government of Sri Lanka, which provided further additional information on 5 September 2019. 5. The Working Group thanks the Government of Sri Lanka for the cooperation with the process of the follow up report. While welcoming progress in the implementation of some recommendations, it notes that many have only been partially addressed or have not been addressed at all. The Group underlines the importance of full implementation of all of the recommendations made in the report. 6. The Working Group welcomes the establishment of the Office of Missing Persons (OMP), as well as information that it has a range of powers to obtain information and evidence relevant to its investigations, that three regional offices have been opened and several trilingual reports have been published. It also welcomes information according to which the OMP now has access to the records of past 3