...Martin informed that 124 international UN volunteers (UNVs) have arrived and together with 43 Nepali UNVs, they would be deployed as district electoral advisers... Read

Euclides Monteiro describes the challenges he faced and the rewards he received while working on an assignment in Timor-Leste. Read

Dili, Timor-Leste: In the weeks since the first round of presidential voting in Timor-Leste, UNV volunteers have been focusing on using lessons learnt to improve the electoral process.  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

Dili, Timor-Leste: In the face of occasional violence, UNV volunteers are delivering much-needed development support to the people of Timor-Leste. UNV Support Officer Ms Remedios Vestil-Mondigo deals regularly with security threats like stone-throwing incidents on the road from the international airport, to which she travels twice or three times a day to greet incoming UNV volunteers. Read

Bonn, Germany: In 2006, over 7,500 UNV volunteers supported communities, non-governmental and civil society organizations as well as governments all over the world to foster sustainable development. In more than 140 countries, UNV volunteers, the majority of whom hail from developing countries themselves, worked in key areas such as poverty reduction, crisis recovery, elections support, governance and HIV/AIDS. Read

Pristina, Serbia: UN Volunteers participation in UNMIK dates back to the beginning of the mission in June 1999 when some 200 UN Volunteers supported the mission in humanitarian work, organizing food deliveries, providing medical care and setting up temporary shelter for thousands of refugees returning to Kosovo. Read

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: On Sunday, 3 December, Haitians will cast their vote in local and municipal elections. Due to their significance for the politics of decentralization, the elections are considered extremely important for the future of the country, as President Préval and the head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Edmond Mulet, recently declared. Read

New York, USA: A group of 45 United Nations Volunteers (UNV) have arrived in Timor-Leste to join preparations for the strife-torn country’s first post-independence elections next year. Read

Kinshasa, DR Congo: With the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first elections in four decades just days away, UN Volunteers are steadfast in supporting the final preparations for Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary vote. Read