A/HRC/43/68 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 7 February 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 Agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building Report of the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights*, ** Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 18/18, in which the Council invited the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights to present a comprehensive report on the Board’s work on an annual basis, starting from the twentieth session of the Council. Pursuant to Council resolution 36/28, the present report is submitted to the Council at its forty-third session, in March 2020. It provides an update on the work of the Board of Trustees of the Fund since the previous report of the Chair of the Board (A/HRC/40/78). * Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. ** The annexes to the present report are circulated as received, in the language of submission only. GE.20-01831(E) 