BONN: Twenty years back, the Buenos Aires Plan of Action called on the developing countries to "create, acquire, adapt, transfer and pool knowledge and experience for their mutual benefit and for achieving mutual and collective self-reliance". Read

Bonn, Germany: Uganda-born UNV gender specialist Christine Musisi received one of the highest honours bestowed upon a foreigner by the Mongolian Government: the Friendship (Nairamdal) Medal. Read

Bonn, Germany: Justino Segredo, born in Mozambique, a refugee for ten years in Zambia, returned to home when the civil war came to end. Many things had changed and destroyed. He became a UNV Field Worker in a Community Development project to fight against poverty in his homecountry. Read

Bonn, Germany: The World Wide Web has opened countless new windows to information and exchange. The United Nations Volunteers programme has greatly benefited from this opportunity to spread knowledge, share ideas and raise awareness on a global scale. Read

Bonn, Germany: Gladys Higa, an experienced sociologist who was worked with extreme poverty in her native Argentina has just returned from six months in Angola. Read

Bonn, Germany: One of Rwanda's main priorities - and also one of its great challenges - is the reinsertion of some two million refugees and displaced persons (most of them widows and orphans) into the country's socio-economic life. To aid in this delicate and crucial process, 13 UNV field workers are working since early 1997 in 5 Rwandan prefectures. Read

Preparations for the International Year of Volunteers 2001 are getting under way. The Year was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in November last, and UNV was designated as the UN focal point. Read

BONN: UNV's Executive Co-ordinator Sharon Capeling-Alakija was a keynote speaker at the 15th Biennial World Volunteer Conference of the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) from 23-27 August 1998. Read

Bonn, Germany: Eusebio Muloshi, a UNV Institution Building Specialist from Zambia, is completing his four-year assignment in Gambia under the National Poverty Alleviation Programme (NPAP) attached to the Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (TANGO). Read

Bonn, Germany: This is a story about Alaf, a 20-year old seamstress from Yemen. Alaf is deaf. She finished two years of vocational training in sewing in the Martyr Fadel El Halali Centre for vocational training for the disabled. The centre was established in 1989 by a UNDP/ILO project in co-operation with the Ministry of Social Affairs in Sana'a, Yemen. Read

Bonn, Germany: When elections take place in Cambodia, United Nations Volunteers are not far. In 1993, after a civil war that had ravaged the country for more than two decades, almost 500 UNVs were part of the electoral component of UNTAC, the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia, to prepare for elections. Read