Maryland, USA: The International Labour Organization and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies today announced an agreement to develop an approach for putting volunteer work on the economic map for the first time. Also announced was a start-up grant from the United Nations Volunteers to help underwrite this effort. Read

Dili, Timor-Leste: As voters in Timor-Leste prepare for a second round of voting in the presidential elections, UNV volunteers are contemplating a new set of challenges but also a job well done.  Read

Kamenge, Burundi: UNV volunteers at the Roi Khaled Hospital in Kamenge, north of Bujumbura, have been working for days on renovating one of four paediatric wards at the hospital. Including everything from overhauling the sanitation facilities to repairing mosquito nets and crumbling walls, as well as organizing donations of medicine. Read

Bonn, Germany: Canada, through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), has contributed one million Canadian dollars (C$1m) to the United Nations Volunteers programme in order to promote Volunteerism for Development (V4D). Read

Pristina, Kosovo: Five members of the UNV programme in Kosovo are among 20 people recently honoured for their work in a Missing Persons and Forensics Project (OMPF). The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Joachim Rücker, handed UN 21 awards to international UNV volunteers Adidja Asman (Burundi), Klaire Kasibayo (Uganda), James Nicholls (UK), Olajide Sunday Animasaun (Nigeria), and Omololu Owolabi (Nigeria) on March 16. Read

Hanoi, Viet Nam: A UNV-supported project in Hanoi, Viet Nam is educating women in IT skills so that when they leave the rehabilitation centre they will not relapse back into drug use and sex work. It is a first, important step in eliminating the title "social evils". Read

Bonn, Germany: United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Executive Coordinator Ad de Raad welcomes UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro on her first official visit to the UN campus in Bonn. Read

Unification Town, Liberia: As Liberia’s civil war raged last decade, violence towards women was disproportionately high. Almost ten years later, UNV volunteers are helping to tackle rising domestic violence. Read

Pristina, Kosovo: UNV volunteers and others are helping spread the word in Kosovo that International Women’s Day is an important event to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women around the globe – and an opportunity to end violence. Read

Thimphu, Bhutan: Goodwill ambassadors Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane have taken to heart the fight against poverty by sponsoring the Match Against Poverty. Part of the proceeds from this UNDP event are going to support an ethnic minority in the Himalayan country of Bhutan as they seek greater access to education and agricultural techniques. Read