Summary

The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 18/18, in which the Council invited the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights to present a comprehensive report on the Board’s work on an annual basis, starting from the twentieth session of the Council. Pursuant to Council resolution 36/28, the present report is submitted to the Council at its fifty-second session, in March 2023. It provides an update on the work of the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund since the previous report of the Chair of the Board (A/HRC/49/93).