The Board estimates that applications for new grants for the year 2001 will amount to at least million. New applications for 2001 should be submitted to the secretariat of the Fund by 31 December 2000. New voluntary contributions should be received before 1 March 2001, as recommended by the Commission on Human Rights.
Detailed information will be available in the Secretary-General’s annual report on the Fund to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session (last Report A/54/177).
For more information, please contact the Fund’s secretariat at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Trust Funds Unit, telephone (41.22) 917.93.15, fax (41.22) 917.90.17, e-mail: dpremont.hchr@ unog.ch, website: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/9/vftortur.htm.
