Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Policy makers and senior officials this week praised a UNV programme designed to foster regional integration, social cohesion and poverty reduction in the Balkans. Read

Tuzla, Bosnia: Since the beginning of 2007, UNV has been working with the NGO Zemlja djece (Children's Earth) to improve the psycho-social condition of street children and youth, through a spectrum of various educational, counseling and recreational activities offered at the TELEX Teenage Centre. For Jasminka Cikaric and Hava Suljic, the Centre in Tuzla was their first real school.  The two former street children had never had formal education before coming here. (Read attached stories below) Read

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Japanese Government has pledged US$400,000 to extend a confidence-building initiative among ethnically divided young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Read

The hands-on work with UNHCR persons of concern, such as refugees and displaced persons, remained the most enjoyable and rewarding part of my work as a UN Volunteer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bosnia. Read

Bonn, Germany: The UNV programme, with the support of the German and the Japanese Governments, has been able to provide some refugees and internally displaced persons with an opportunity to return to Bosnia as National UN Volunteers. Since 1997 well over 200 of them have worked as NUNVs to help with the postwar rehabilitation of their country. Their efforts help make the peace hold. Read

Bonn, Germany: In a repeated support effort the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV), headquartered in Bonn, is providing assistance for the municipal elections in Bosnia on 13/14 September held under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Read

Bonn, Germany: At the initiative of the UN-Volunteer Program (United Nations Volunteers/UNV), Bosnian war refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany will be offered the opportunity to return to Bosnia as specialists. Read