A/HRC/27/49 40. On 13 November 2013, the Working Group issued a press release regarding the launch of its study on the causes and effects of enforced disappearance on the economic, social and cultural rights of the victims, families and human rights defenders.19 41. On 15 November 2013, the Working Group, jointly with the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, issued a statement on the occasion of the third meeting between the two bodies, held on 7 November 2013.20 42. On 22 November 2013, the Working Group issued a press release on the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity.21 43. During the reporting period, the Working Group also issued press releases — most of them jointly with other mandate holders — concerning the Central African Republic, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Guatemala, Iraq, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Spain, the Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand and Uruguay. 44. On 28 February 2013, the Working Group issued a press release concerning allegations of serious human rights violations, including enforced disappearances, in the context of an extensive labour camp system for political prisoners in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.22 45. On 18 April 2013 and 15 May 2013, the Working Group issued two press releases concerning the trial for genocide and crimes against humanity of José Efraín Ríos Montt and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez in Guatemala.23 46. On 25 June 2013, the Working Group issued a press release regarding the rulings of the Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay that led to the closure of at least two cases in which serious allegations of torture, enforced disappearances and killings committed during the dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s were being investigated.24 47. On 5 August 2013, the Working Group issued a press release concerning the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic.25 48. On 30 September 2013, the Working Group issued a press release at the end of its official visit to Spain.26 49. On 16 October 2013, the Working Group issued a press release concerning alleged reprisals against activists linked to the universal periodic review of China.27 50. On 9 December 2013, the Working Group issued a press release urging the Government of Iraq to establish the fate and whereabouts of the seven residents of Camp Ashraf, allegedly abducted in September 2013.28 51. On 16 December 2013, the Working Group issued a press release urging the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to increase its efforts to investigate the enforced disappearance on 15 December 2012 of Sombath Somphone.29 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 8 See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13982&LangID=E. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14010&LangID=E. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14018&LangID=E. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13058&LangID=E. See www.ohchr.org/SP/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13249&LangID=S and www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13330&LangID=E. See www.ohchr.org/SP/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13486&LangID=S. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13607&LangID=E. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13801&LangID=E. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13860&LangID=E. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14078&LangID=E.