A/HRC/40/21 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 December 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Fortieth session 25 February–22 March 2019 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture Report of the Secretary-General Summary The present report, which complements the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session (A/73/281), provides information on the activities of the Fund and describes in particular the recommendations for grants adopted by the Board of Trustees at its forty-eighth session, held in Geneva from 1 to 5 October 2018. GE.18-22016(E) 