Khartoum, Sudan: A team of lawyers mobilized by the Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) in a record three-week period has taken up assignments in five Sudanese cities to help determine the refugee status of some 300,000 Eritreans currently in the country. Read

Asmara, Eritrea: The Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers Unit continues to be of great support to UNMEE by providing volunteer specialists or UNVs, as they are better known, who are deployed in various components of the Mission in very demanding and responsible positions. Read

Asmara, Eritrea: After some 20 years of working as a gynaecologist and obstetrician in her home city of Almaty in Kazakhstan, Dr Gulzhan Chimbayeva wanted to gain some experience in a different environment and she thought the United Nations would be the perfect organization to work for. Read