Summary

The present report is submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 36/151 and 70/146. It describes the activities undertaken by the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, in particular the outcome of the fifty-third session of the Board of Trustees of the Fund, which was held remotely from 22 to 26 March 2021. Information on the recommendations adopted by the Board at its fifty-first and fifty-second sessions, held remotely on 7 July and from 5 to 9 October 2020, respectively, is contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the Fund, which was submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty-sixth session (A/HRC/46/41).