A/HRC/4/41 page 31 General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit Yes N/A N/A Government response Government response Government response No N/A N/A Urgent actions 135. The Working Group transmitted 15 cases to the Government under the urgent action procedure. These urgent action cases include the cases of seven farmers reportedly detained by army troops. 136. Three other urgent action cases concerned two brothers and their friend, two of them under 18, who were apprehended, reportedly by paramilitaries. These cases were also reported to the National Prosecutor’s Office. 137. The five remaining cases referred to four men and one woman who allegedly disappeared after having been taken by paramilitary members. Standard cases 138. Forty-four new cases of disappearances were transmitted under the standard procedure to the Government. The disappearances took place from 2000 to 2004 and included seven women and three persons under 18 years of age. Most of these cases were reportedly committed by paramilitary groups acting with the complicity of the State. Information from the Government 139. Three communications were received from the Government, dated 3 April, 16 May and 6 November 2006. The information reviewed was considered insufficient to constitute a clarification. The last communication could not be translated by the United Nations translation services in time for consideration by the Working Group for inclusion in the present report. Information from sources 140. Additional information was received from a source on 23 October 2006, which was received too late for review by the Working Group and will be examined at the eighty-first session in early 2007. Meetings 141. During the eightieth session, the Working Group met with NGO representatives to discuss the situation of disappearances in Colombia. General allegation 142. Information was submitted by NGOs to the Working Group concerning alleged obstacles encountered in the implementation of the Declaration by the Government of Colombia (see paragraph 14). This information was transmitted to the Government.

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