A/HRC/34/17 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 9 December 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February-24 March 2017 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-first session (A/71/289), provides information on the activities of the Fund and describes in particular the recommendations for grants adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Fund at its forty-fourth session, held in Geneva from 3 to 7 October 2016. GE.16-21813(E) 