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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.