A/HRC/28/3 29. OHCHR supported the United Nations country teams in integrating recommendations made by human rights mechanisms into their programmatic work. 5. Humanitarian funds 30. At its thirty-ninth session, the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture spelled out the objectives of a renewed strategy and funding that would enable it to respond with better emergency assistance for victims.3 The new vision is characterized by a universal victim-centred approach and impartial outreach, and strives to respond in a fairer manner to both new and long-term needs, and to distribute resources more evenly among all United Nations regions. In 2014, the Fund supported 270 projects for a total amount of $7.2 million. 31. OHCHR also administers the United Nations Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and the Special Fund established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. In 2014, the Trust Fund supported 35 projects for a total amount of $400,000, whereas the Special Fund disbursed seven grants for a total amount of $232,000. The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples supported the participation of 170 representatives of indigenous peoples in human rights mechanisms and in the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. 6. Progressive development of international law 32. The Office supported initiatives organized by intergovernmental bodies, the special procedures and the treaty bodies. For example, in the context of the Human Rights Council, work continued on a draft declaration on the rights of peasants and people working in rural areas; and in the context of the General Assembly, the Office, jointly with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, facilitated the fifth session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing. 33. In the context of the special procedures, the Office supported work on, inter alia, the draft basic principles and guidelines on remedies and procedures on the right of anyone deprived of his or her liberty to bring proceedings before court; and the draft basic principles on the right to effective remedies for trafficked persons. The treaty bodies adopted new general comments and recommendations: for example, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities adopted general comments on equal recognition before the law4 and on accessibility;5 the Human Rights Committee, on liberty and security of person;6 the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted a joint general recommendation/comment on harmful practices,7 and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted a general recommendation on gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women. 8 3 4 5 6 7 8 See A/68/282. CRPD/C/GC/1. CRPD/C/GC/2. CCPR/C/GC/35. CEDAW/C/GC/31 – CRC/C/GC/18. CEDAW/C/GC/32. 7