A/HRC/41/41/Add.1 I. Introduction 1. The present document is submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 32/32. The document provides observations on the communications addressed by the Special Rapporteur to States and other actors, and on the replies received. 2. In the present addendum, the Special Rapporteur provides observations on communications sent to States and other actors between 1 April 2018 and 25 April 2019. This report further contains observations on responses to the aforementioned communications received from States and other actors until 17 June 2019. 3. In order to avoid duplicating information, the addendum limits itself to reporting on those communications which have not been covered by the extensive addendum “Observations on communications transmitted to Governments and replies received” submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to the Human Rights Council during its 40th session on 22 February 2019 (https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G19/048/00/PDF/G1904800.pdf?OpenElement). Instead, a list of these communications will be provided at the end of the current document. The Special Rapporteur thanks all of those States and other actors who provided replies to communications sent which are not explicitly reported on in this addendum. 4. Communications sent and responses received during the reporting period are accessible electronically through the hyperlink below. Certain replies received before 17 June 2019 could not be included because translation of these documents was not available at the time of the finalisation of the report. The Special Rapporteur is aware of responses received after the reporting deadline that could not be reflected in the present report and takes this opportunity to highlight the importance of receiving timely replies. 5. Each communication is referenced as an urgent appeal (UA), joint urgent appeal (JUA), allegation letter (AL), joint allegation letter (JAL), other letter (OL) or joint other letter (JOL), followed by the date the communication was issued, the case number and the date of the State reply, if any. The communications included in this report and the replies received from the concerned States, respectively, can be consulted on the following webpage https://spcommreports.ohchr.org. 6. The Special Rapporteur is grateful to all States and other actors that have transmitted responses to communications sent. He considers interaction through his communications as an important part of cooperation with States and encourages States (and others) to benefit from this opportunity to have a constructive dialogue through the use of this tool. In this context, the Special Rapporteur recalls paragraph 2 of the Human Rights Council resolution 32/32 that calls upon States “to continue to cooperate fully with and assist him in the performance of his mandate [and] to respond promptly to his urgent appeals and other communications…” Therefore, he urges all States which have not yet replied to his communications to do so without further delay. II. Summary 7. Between 1 April 2018 and 25 April 2019, the Special Rapporteur sent 130 communications, either individually or jointly with other mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, to 60 States and 13 other actors, of which 22 were urgent appeals, 93 were allegation letters and 15 were other letters. 8. Examined by region, the figures show that 21 communications were addressed to countries in the Africa region (16 per cent), 25 to countries in the Americas region (19 per cent), 26 in the Asia-Pacific region (20 per cent), 26 in the Europe and Central Asia region (20 per cent), and 19 in the Middle East and North Africa region (15 per cent), while 13 communications were addressed to other actors (10.0 per cent). 9. Of the 130 communications sent during the reporting period, the Special Rapporteur received responses to 66, giving an average response-rate of 50 per cent, a slightly higher rate than was noted in the last observations report of the mandate. While certain replies 2