Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society

Reference links from Chapter 9: Funds and grants

• The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture:
  http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/TortureFundMain.aspx
  
  
• The Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/about/funds/indigenous
  
  
• The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/about/funds/slavery
  
  
• The “Assisting Communities Together” (ACT) Project:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/act.htm
  
  
• The United Nations Democracy Fund:
  http://www.un.org/democracyfund/index.htm
  
  
• The United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability:
  http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disunvf.htm
  
  
• How to submit an application to the Fund:
  http://grants.ohchr.org/Default.aspx
  
  
• More information on the Expert mechanism
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/ExpertMechanism/index.htm
  
  
• To learn more about OHCHR work on indigenous people:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/index.htm
  
  
• Where to submit an application for the UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/about/funds/slavery/
  
  
• UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery brochure
  http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/UNVFSPublicationsen.pdf
  
  
• How to contact the ACT Project:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/act.htm
  
  
• For the ACT brochure:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/ACT.pdf
  
  
• How to apply to UNDEF
  http://www.un.org/democracyfund/index.htm
  
  
• How to apply to the UN Voluntary Fund on Disability:
  http://www.un.org/disabilities/