CAT/OP/C/57/4 and calls upon States to continue to support the Fund financially. The Subcommittee has established a working group to review with the secretariat of the Fund how the work and visibility of the Fund could be maintained and enhanced. The working group will also study the Fund’s administrative arrangements and explore the options for and possibility of establishing an advisory mechanism to oversee its operation. III. Engagement with other bodies in the field of torture prevention A. International cooperation 1. Cooperation with other United Nations bodies 29. The Chair of the Subcommittee presented the eighth annual report of the Subcommittee (CAT/C/54/2) at the plenary meeting of Committee against Torture on 28 April 2015. The Subcommittee and Committee met jointly in Geneva on 18 November 2015 to discuss issues pertaining to the prevention of torture and ill-treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) facilitated and participated in the meeting. 30. In conformity with General Assembly resolution 68/156, and together with the Chair of the Committee against Torture and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, who presented their respective reports, the Subcommittee Chair presented the eighth annual report of the Subcommittee to the General Assembly at its seventieth session, on 20 October 2015.4 31. The Subcommittee continued its involvement in the annual meetings of the Chairs of the human rights treaty bodies. At their twenty-seventh meeting, held in San José in June 2015, the Chairs endorsed the Guidelines against Intimidation or Reprisals (San José Guidelines), which the Subcommittee then endorsed at its twenty-seventh session. The Subcommittee reviewed and revised its own policy on reprisals (CAT/OP/6) in the light of the San José Guidelines and adopted revised Subcommittee guidelines at its twenty-eighth session. The Subcommittee also discussed the implementation of General Assembly resolution 68/268. It continued to monitor its activities to ensure conformity with the guidelines on the independence and impartiality of members of the human rights treaty bodies (Addis Ababa guidelines). It also participated in numerous other activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). 32. The Subcommittee joined the Special Rapporteur on torture, the Committee against Torture and the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture in issuing a statement on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (26 June). The Subcommittee continued to cooperate systematically with other mechanisms, including by transmitting to the Committee against Torture its recommendations concerning States parties to the Optional Protocol the reports of which are to be considered at forthcoming sessions of the Committee. 33. The Subcommittee continued its cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, including at a meeting during the Subcommittee’s 4 The Chair’s statement to the General Assembly is available at www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16717&LangID=E. 7