A/HRC/20/39 Table 2. Voluntary Fund for participation in the universal periodic review voluntary contributions as at 31 December 2011 (United States dollars) Total Donor Austria 2008–2009 a 2010–2011 2008–2011 157,729 157,729 Colombia 26,668 26,668 Denmark 359,002 359,002 246,609 665,019 6,570 6,570 Germany 418,410 Hungary Italy 422,852 Japan 200,000 Kuwait Romania Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Total a 200,000 400,000 50,000 50,000 73,746 73,746 100,000 100,000 25,000 25,000 Singapore Switzerland 422,852 10,000 10,000 95,238 1,492,975 95,238 898,849 2,391,824 The 2008–2009 contributions include contributions from Italy, Romania and the Russian Federation paid in 2007 but transferred to the Voluntary Fund in 2008 (US$ 375,359). IV. Activities A. Travel to meetings 14. Since the establishment of the Fund, 67 States1 have requested financial assistance for travel to the Working Group sessions during which they were reviewed. Of these, 30 were least developed countries. In addition, 10 States requested financial assistance to travel to the session of the Human Rights Council for the adoption of the outcome of their review. As the Fund only became operational starting from the second session of the Working Group, countries reviewed during the first session did not have the possibility to request assistance. 1 6 A total of 67 Member States have received support from the Voluntary Fund during the first cycle of the universal periodic review: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Niger, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Swaziland, Tajikistan, TimorLeste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu and Yemen.

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