Bonn, Germany: The United Nations' International Year of Volunteers (IYV 2001) is picking up speed as it enters its final stretch. More than 200 city, state and national committees in 124 countries are taking up a last round of activities in the largest celebration of volunteer action ever conceived. Read

Bonn, Germany: A former member of a street gang, who still bears the signs of his past life tattooed on his skin, now fights against violence; a young lawyer promotes and defends human rights; a transvestite distributes condoms amongst prostitutes; an elderly tap dancer entertains residents in old people's homes. Read

Exactly two weeks ago the shock of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook the world. Since then we have all lived with the horrible images of devastation, of suffering and grief which will forever be engraved on our collective memory. Read

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) today launched a new organizational web site, incorporating fresh graphics and a strong focus on its promotion of volunteer action around the world. Read

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) and one of the world's leaders in water services, Suez, today announced a wide-ranging cooperation agreement to promote the services of corporate volunteers in developing countries. Read

Bonn, Germany/Stockholm, Sweden: The Swedish telecommunications corporation Ericsson has donated 280 mobile phones to the Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) to help increase security of personnel in relief operations worldwide. Read

Bonn, Germany: Many of the 123 National Committees and partner organizations for the International Year of Volunteers (IYV) 2001 will commemorate the role of volunteer advocates striving for indigenous human rights on this, the seventh International Day of the World's Indigenous People. Read

Bonn, Germany: United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS), a global volunteering effort to help bridge the international digital divide, has launched a new, expanded web site that includes a list of volunteering opportunities, activities already underway, and a resource center of applications of information and communications technologies (ICT) to human development. Read

Bonn, Germany: The Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV), Sharon Capeling-Alakija, will address the 105th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Havana, Cuba, on 2 April about the growing awareness of volunteer action during the International Year of Volunteers 2001 (IYV 2001). Read

Bonn, Germany: Volunteer activists in more than 110 countries have already formed over 130 committees at the start of the International Year of Volunteers 2001 (IYV 2001), the largest celebration of volunteerism ever conceived. Read