A/HRC/27/49 Contents Paragraphs Page I. Introduction............................................................................................................. 1–8 3 II. Activities of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances: 10 November 2012 to 16 May 2014 ....................................................................... 9–35 4 A. Activities ........................................................................................................ 9–17 4 B. Meetings ......................................................................................................... 18–19 5 C. Communications............................................................................................. 20–25 5 D. Country visits ................................................................................................. 26–30 6 E. Follow–up reports and other procedures ........................................................ 31–32 6 F. Press releases and statements ......................................................................... 33–54 7 G. Methods of work............................................................................................. 55 9 III. Decisions on individual cases taken by the Working Group and communications transmitted to the States concerned during the reporting period ............................. 10 IV. Observations ........................................................................................................... 56–109 15 V. Conclusions and recommendations......................................................................... 110–123 23 I. Country visit requests and invitations extended............................................................................... 26 II. Statistical summary: cases of enforced or involuntary disappearance reported to the Working Group between 1980 and 2014, and general allegations transmitted ............................................... 28 Graphs showing the number of cases of enforced disappearances per year and per country according to the cases transmitted by the Working Group during the period 1980–16 May 2014 (only for countries with more than 100 cases transmitted) .............................. 33 Annexes III. 2