A/HRC/4/41 page 3 CONTENTS Paragraphs I. II. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................ 1 - 28 8 A. The mandate ......................................................................... 1-4 8 B. Methods of work ................................................................... 5 - 14 8 C. Disappearance as a global problem ...................................... 15 - 18 9 D. The present report ................................................................. 19 - 23 10 E. Areas of particular concern during the reporting period ...... 24 - 28 11 ACTIVITIES OF THE WORKING GROUP ON ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES FROM NOVEMBER 2005 TO NOVEMBER 2006 ................................ 29 - 48 11 A. Meetings ............................................................................... 29 - 34 11 B. Communications ................................................................... 35 - 39 12 C. Country visits ........................................................................ 40 - 42 12 D. Participation in the intersessional working group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance ........ 43 13 Statements and studies .......................................................... 44 - 48 13 INFORMATION CONCERNING ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES REVIEWED BY THE WORKING GROUP ............................... 49 - 494 14 Afghanistan ................................................................................... 49 14 Algeria .......................................................................................... 50 - 72 15 Angola .......................................................................................... 73 - 76 18 Argentina ...................................................................................... 77 - 88 19 Bangladesh ................................................................................... 89 - 93 21 Belarus .......................................................................................... 94 - 98 22 Bhutan ........................................................................................... 99 - 102 23 E. III. Page