FUNDING UN VOLUNTARY FUND FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURE IN 2019 Donor US$ Andorra 10,941 Austria 32,823 Canada1 76,859 Chile 10,000 Czech Republic 8,703 Denmark 762,311 Egypt 10,000 France 78,038 Germany 777,328 Holy See 4,000 India 50,000 Ireland 94,760 Italy 27,503 Kuwait 10,000 Liechtenstein 25,025 Luxembourg 16,411 Mexico 10,000 Norway 324,957 Pakistan 3,000 Peru 2,264 Portugal 22,002 Saudi Arabia 75,000 Switzerland 201,613 United Arab Emirates 10,000 United Kingdom 31,606 United States of America 6,550,000 Individual donors 305 1 TOTAL 9,225,449 EXPENDITURE 9,222,001 Includes a contribution of CAD 30,000 from the Government of Québec. 124 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2019 At the fiftieth Board Session of the Fund, held in Geneva from 7 to 11 October, the Board of Trustees recommended that 171 annual grants be awarded in 2020, in 78 countries, reaching approximately 40,000 torture victims, for a total of US$7,303,850 (with an average grant size of US$42,713). Of those projects, 164 are for the delivery of direct assistance to victims of torture and their families (US$7,059,500) and seven are for training and capacity-building projects (US$244,350) aimed at strengthening the capacity of organizations to deliver such services. In addition, through its emergency grants procedure, the Fund supported seven emergency projects (US$417,313) in all five regions of the world to respond to urgent humanitarian and human rights situations in 2019. UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTARY TRUST FUND ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery was established by General Assembly resolution 46/122, in 1991, with the mandate of providing direct assistance to victims of contemporary forms of slavery. It awards annual grants to civil society organizations, including rehabilitation centres, trade unions, shelters for victims and legal redress programmes. Modern forms of slavery are brought to light on a regular basis, including serfdom, forced labour, bonded labour, trafficking in persons and in human organs, sexual slavery, the worst forms of child labour, early and forced marriage, inherited widows, the sale of wives and other forms of slavery.