Bonn, Germany: In June 1973, a young Ecuadorian student attracted through the activity report of the new United Nations Volunteers (UNV), set off in January 1974 as the second UN Volunteer to ever serve in Sudan. Read

BONN: The UN General Assembly called in 1976 on the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) to spearhead the Domestic Development Services (DDS) which highlights South-South approaches to grassroots development. In 1979, the first team of UN Volunteers is assigned to a DDS project in Asia.Under the DDS programme, UNV mobilizes over 300 volunteers a year in large parts of Africa, Asia and The Pacific in the mid- to late-1980s. In its first strategy document, "UNV Strategic Approach", issued in 1993, UNV stresses community-oriented, participatory approaches to development as the core of its efforts. Read

BONN: On 8 April 1993, Atsuhito Nakata,  was assassinated in the course of his duties as a UNV District Electoral Supervisor with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia. Shortly after Atsuhito's death, his father, Mr. Takehito Nakata decided to follow his son's example in promoting human rights and the UN's vital work for the international community. Read

BONN: UN Volunteers Executive Coordinator Sharon Capeling-Alakija reflects on three decades of the programme's activities and discusses its future in an interview with Richard Nyberg. Read

BONN: Message by John Gordon, UNV Coordinator from 1974 to 1977, also on behalf of Assad K. Sadry, first UNV Coordinator from 1971 to 1973 Read

BONN: Message by Hikmat Nabulsi, UNV Executive Coordinator from 1977 to 1987. Read

BONN: Message by Brenda Gael McSweeney, UNV Executive Coordinator from 1988 to 1997. Read

BONN: While looking back at 30 years of expanding service for peace and development, the UNV programme recalls with deepest sorrow the four UN Volunteers who were murdered on duty and the untimely deaths of others who passed away under different circumstances. Read

BONN: UNV: Through the years (1970 - 2001) Read