Islamabad, Pakistan: The first in a series of seminars on volunteerism and the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was held in Pakistan’s capital city on Saturday, 6 November.More than 200 students at Quaid-i-Azam University listened to talks on the role of volunteers in achieving the MDGs presented by Dr. Nazim Ashraf, Pakistan’s Minister of State, and Onder Yucer, the UN Resident Coordinator in Pakistan. Read

Islamabad, Pakistan: The first in a series of seminars on volunteerism and the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was held in Pakistan’s capital city on Saturday, 6 November. Read

Islamabad, Pakistan: To mark the close of the International Year of Volunteers 2001 (IYV), and in celebration of International Volunteer Day, the United Nations System in Pakistan today launched a book featuring the work of Pakistani UN Volunteers serving abroad in developing countries. Read

From 5-7 December 2004, the first International Conference on Volunteerism and the Millennium Development Goals was held in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Conference was organised jointly by the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) of Pakistan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme. Read