A/HRC/7/2 page 7 9. The total number of cases transmitted by the Working Group to Governments since the Working Group’s inception is 51,763. The number of cases under active consideration that have not yet been clarified or discontinued stands at 41,257 and concerns 78 States. The Working Group has been able to clarify 2,702 cases over the past five years. 10. It is recalled that recent cases of disappearance are the priority of the Working Group. Large volumes of cases submitted to the Working Group many years after the persons disappeared are reviewed by the Working Group and processed by the Secretariat as an ongoing process. With the improved staffing beginning in 2005, the Working Group was able to address the backlog of cases. However, during 2007, the Working Group received more than 1,000 cases, and expects to be able to process them in 2008. The Working Group wishes to thank the Office of the High Commissioner for the continuous support given to the Working Group, and hopes to maintain the adequate level of staffing which it now enjoys. II. ACTIVITIES OF THE WORKING GROUP ON ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES: NOVEMBER 2006 TO NOVEMBER 2007 A. Meetings 11. During the period under review, the Working Group held three sessions in Geneva. The eighty-first session was held from 15 to 21 March 2007, the eighty-second session from 25 to 29 June 2007 and the eighty-third session from 21 to 30 November 2007. 12. The Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group is Mr. Santiago Corcuera. The other members are Mr. J. ‘Bayo Adekanye, Mr. Saied Rajaie Khorasani, Mr. Darko Göttlicher, and Mr. Stephen J. Toope. 13. In June 2007, Mr. Corcuera attended the fourteenth annual meeting of special rapporteurs, representatives, independent experts and chairpersons of working groups of the Human Rights Council. In April 2007, he participated in a workshop on the follow-up to the Ombudsman Offices’ implementation of the recommendations formulated by international human rights mechanisms. The workshop took place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. In May 2007, Mr. Corcuera participated in a Workshop on the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which took place in Paris. In October 2007, he participated in a regional workshop on the problem of enforced disappearances held in Lima, and organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross. 14. During the period under review, the Working Group met formally with representatives of the Governments of France, Iraq, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. The Working Group also met with representatives of human rights non-governmental organizations, associations of relatives of disappeared persons and families or witnesses directly concerned with reports of enforced disappearance. 15. During the fourth session of the Human Rights Council, the Working Group met with representatives of the Government of Sri Lanka. The Chairman-Rapporteur, Mr. Corcuera, also met with representatives of the Governments of Colombia and Argentina.