United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/WGEID/99/1 Distr.: General 10 June 2013 Original: English Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Post-sessional document Ninety-ninth session (11-15 March 2013) I. Introduction 1. Further to its comments in its last annual report, submitted to the Human Rights Council at its 22nd session (A/HRC/22/45 and Corr.1, para. 5) the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has adopted the practice of producing postsessional documents to allow the translation of reporting on its activities, including all relevant country-specific information on enforced disappearances around the world. It commenced this practice at its ninety-eighth session, when in addition two general comments adopted concerning children and enforced disappearances and women affected by enforced disappearances were also reproduced as post-sessional documents (A/HRC/WGEID/98/1 and A/HRC/WGEID/98/2 respectively). 2. As of the present session, post-sessional documents will reflect communications and cases examined by the Working Group during each session. The annual report of the Working Group will contain hyperlinks to the post-sessional documents adopted after each session in the reporting period. 3. The present document reflects communications and cases examined by the Working Group during its ninety-ninth session, held from 11 to 15 March 2013. II. Communications 4. Between the ninety-eighth and the ninety-ninth sessions, the Working Group transmitted 10 cases under its urgent action procedure to China, India, Kenya, Pakistan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Thailand. 5. During the ninety-ninth session, the Working Group decided to transmit 60 newly reported cases of enforced disappearance to 15 States. The Working Group also clarified three cases, in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Switzerland. Of the three cases, two were clarified on the basis of information provided by Governments, and one on the basis of information provided by sources. 6. Between the ninety-eighth and the ninety-ninth sessions, the Working Group transmitted three communications under its prompt intervention procedure to Mexico and GE.13-14606