E/CN.4/2005/85 page 6 5. From 17 to 21 January the Special Rapporteur will attend a working meeting organized by the Mexican National Institute for Migration (INM) to review action taken by INM on the recommendations contained in the Special Rapporteur’s report on her visit to Mexico (E/CN.4/2003/85/Add.2). 6. From 2 to 9 February the Special Rapporteur will pay an official visit to Burkina Faso at the invitation of the Government. However, as at 22 December 2004 she had still not received official confirmation of the dates proposed in her letter of 27 November 2004 addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso. 7. In March she will deliver a lecture at the Osaka University of Economics and Law, in Japan, at the invitation of the University’s Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership (CAPP) and the NGO International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR). 8. From 28 to 30 April she will attend the fifteenth Symposium of Lawyers on Immigration Law, at the invitation of the Real e Ilustre Colegio de Abogados (Royal College of Law), Zaragoza, Spain. 9. On 9 June she has been invited by Fairfield University to attend its annual meeting of academics and researchers from Jesuit institutions in the field of migration. 10. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur has taken part in various intergovernmental consultative processes on migration management, including the Berne Initiative and the Regional Conference on Migration, and has provided information to the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM).1 B. Communications 11. Addendum 1 to this report summarizes the communications sent by the Special Rapporteur in 2004 and the replies received from the Governments concerned. Each chapter also includes comments on the situations described in the allegations transmitted, in the light of the information provided by the Governments. Addendum 1 also contains statistics on the communications sent since 1999. 12. During this period, the Special Rapporteur sent 85 letters containing allegations and 45 urgent appeals to 51 Governments. She is grateful for the wholehearted cooperation she received from most Governments, which provided all the information requested and replied promptly to her urgent appeals. In certain cases, the Special Rapporteur has indicated that a Government provided incomplete information, leaving specific points or individual allegations unanswered. 13. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur sent 36 communications to 24 Governments containing information on individual cases and reports of a more general nature on legislation and administrative practices that allegedly violated the human rights of migrants or made them more vulnerable to abuse. She sent nine urgent appeals, 20 letters containing allegations and 7 letters following up on the recommendations made after her visits. She received 22 replies from the Governments concerned, although some of these contained information relating to communications sent in 2003 and 2004.