ANNEX I. >> M  etadata sheets on selected indicators Such data may underestimate (or sometimes, though rarely, even overestimate) the incidence of enforced disappearance, if used in a casual manner to draw generalized conclusions for the country as a whole. Moreover, in most instances, the number of cases reported to the Working Group would depend on the awareness, access to information, motivation of the relatives of the disappeared person, political situation and level of organization of the civil society organizations representing the families, in the country concerned. The Working Group deals only with clearly identified individual cases. Information reported to it should contain a minimum of elements, such as the identity of the disappeared person; the date on which the disappearance occurred (at least the month and year); the place of arrest or abduction, or where the disappeared person was last seen; the forces (State or State-supported) believed to be responsible for the disappearance; the steps taken to search for the disappeared person. Cases are accepted only with the explicit consent of the disappeared person’s family and when the source is clearly identifiable (family or civil society organization representing the family). Also, the Working Group does not deal with situations of international armed conflict. According to the Working Group and as defined in the preamble to the Declaration, enforced disappearances occur when persons are arrested, detained or abducted against their will or otherwise deprived of their liberty by officials of different branches or levels of Government or by organized groups or private individuals acting on behalf of, or with the support, direct or indirect, consent or acquiescence of the Government, followed by a refusal to disclose the fate or whereabouts of the persons concerned or a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of their liberty, which places such persons outside the protection of the law. When “committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack”, enforced disappearance is defined as a crime against humanity in article 7 (1) (i) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. In transmitting cases of disappearance, the Working Group deals exclusively with Governments, basing itself on the principle that they must assume responsibility for any human rights violation on their territory. Thus, it does not admit cases of enforced disappearance that have been attributed to irregular or insurgent movements fighting the Government on its own territory. Nevertheless, the Working Group considers that information on all disappearances (attributable to the Government or not) is relevant when properly evaluating the situation in a particular country. Examples of provisions relevant to the right to life and this indicator: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 3; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, art. 6; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, art. 12 (1) and (2) (a); International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, art. 5; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, arts. 2 and 12; Convention on the Rights of the Child, art. 6; International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, art. 9; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, art. 10; International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, art. 1 (2).  Further information on how to report a case is available at www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/ Disappearances/Pages/DisappearancesIndex.aspx (accessed 2 July 2012). 150 Human Rights Indicators