A/HRC/37/3 administered UPR Voluntary Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance provided financial and technical assistance for activities in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Botswana, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Iraq, Lesotho, Paraguay, the Republic of Moldova, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. If contributions to the Voluntary Fund increase, OHCHR would be able to respond even more effectively to such requests for assistance from Member States. 4. Special procedures 14. OHCHR continued to support 44 thematic and 12 country mandates. Comprehensive information on the activities of the special procedures is contained in the report on the twenty-third annual meeting of special rapporteurs/representatives, independent experts and chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures (A/HRC/37/37 and Add.1). 5. Comprehensive follow-up to the work of human rights mechanisms 15. Multi-faceted efforts by OHCHR contributed to giving practical effect to the work of the human rights mechanisms. Efforts included supporting the establishment and work of national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up and the implementation of their recommendations. The Universal Human Rights Index was upgraded, and work proceeded on the launch of a national human rights recommendations tracking database in 2018. 16. OHCHR field presences continued to assist in establishing or strengthening national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up, including in Cape Verde, Lebanon and Papua New Guinea. OHCHR also supported the development of strategies and tools for the implementation of their recommendations, including in Argentina, Burkina Faso, Samoa and South Sudan. The Office played a key role in enhancing the engagement of civil society organizations with the mechanisms, for instance in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Honduras, Iraq, Jamaica, Myanmar, the Republic of Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, and Tunisia, and their interaction with NMRFs, such as in Haiti, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. 6. Humanitarian funds 17. The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, administered by OHCHR, awarded grants totalling $553,000 and $7.1 million to support redress and rehabilitation for more than 37,000 victims in 32 States, and for more than 45,000 victims in 75 States, respectively. The latter fund also made emergency grants, and convened an expert workshop on torture in the context of migration to highlight the particular challenges that arise in this field, including in relation to the identification of migrants who are victims of torture, obtaining redress for violations, and ensuring access to rehabilitation. 18. The Special Fund established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment awarded grants amounting to $273,096 to support 11 prevention projects in nine States parties to the Optional Protocol. B. 1. Enhancing equality and countering discrimination Discrimination against migrants 19. OHCHR enhanced its focus on the rights of people on the move and countering xenophobia against migrants, especially those in vulnerable situations. It played a key role in supporting and providing technical expertise to the consultations held in 2017 on the global compacts on safe, orderly and regular migration and on refugees. OHCHR also supported discussions in the Human Rights Council on issues relating to migration, including on large movements, unaccompanied migrant children, and climate change and migration. 20. The Office provided training, technical advice and legal expertise on migration. In addition, in September, an OHCHR team conducted a mission to El Salvador, Guatemala, 4