A/HRC/25/19 General Assembly. It constitutes an unprecedented effort to detail the complexity, workload and full cost of this principal axis of the United Nations human rights system. 84. In 2013, OHCHR facilitated the review of 130 State party reports by the various treaty bodies, the adoption of views and decisions of more than 100 individual communications, and six country visits by the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture. OHCHR continued to provide technical assistance to support reporting, ratification, institution-building and follow-up to recommendations of treaty bodies, both at headquarters and through field presences. 2. Humanitarian funds 85. As of April 2013, the Special Fund established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture is administered by the joint secretariat of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture and the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery with a view to increasing cost-effectiveness, pooling expertise and sharing best practices. In 2013, 332 grants were awarded through these funds in almost 90 countries. While there is tangible impact on beneficiaries as a result of support from these funds, I am concerned at the decreasing level of contributions made to them. 3. Human Rights Council 86. In 2013, the Human Rights Council continued to address various urgent and chronic human rights situations. It extended further the mandate of the commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic and, following an urgent debate, requested in its resolution 23/1 the commission to urgently inquire into the events in Al Qusayr and to report to the Council at its twenty-fourth session. At its twenty-second session, the Council established a commission of inquiry on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to investigate the systematic, widespread and grave human rights violations committed in the country. I regret to report that neither of these missions has been granted access to the countries concerned. 87. OHCHR continued to organize a large number of panel discussions on a broad array of issues, significantly enriching the Council’s deliberations. In addition to the regular annual panel discussions, the Council held panel discussions on the impact of corruption, the contribution of parliaments to the work of the Council and its universal periodic review mechanism, business and human rights, democracy and the rule of law, the human rights of children of parents sentenced to the death penalty or executed, and the twentieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. 4. Universal periodic review 88. By November, all 42 States to be reviewed in 2013 in the second cycle of the universal periodic review had undergone the process. This full participation highlighted the importance attached to the universality of the process, with a welcomed continuation of high-level participation and interest commensurate to the opportunities that the review mechanism offers. 89. The second cycle demonstrated a strong engagement of Member States, most of which sent high-level delegations to present and discuss their record before the Human Rights Council. A growing number of States initiated consultations, including with civil society, to monitor progress in the implementation of their commitments, and a number of States established permanent mechanisms to lead and coordinate the review process. The reports under review provided a description of human rights issues and developments, the progress achieved in the implementation of recommendations made during the first cycle, 16