Bonn, Germany: In 1993, more than 4,000 UNVs have supported electoral registration, supervision, monitoring and logistics. In 1999 alone, UNVs assisted with the elections in Nigeria, Indonesia, South Africa, Nepal, Central African Republic and soon, Mozambique. Read

Bonn, Germany: Some 500 district electoral officers and medical personnel fielded by the Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers programme ahead of East Timor’s “popular consultation” ballot on 30 August are currently safe in Darwin, Australia, or have been repatriated.  Read

Dili, East Timor: More than 150 of some 500 polling officers and medical personnel fielded by the Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers programme ahead of East Timor’s “popular consultation” ballot on 30 August have been repatriated.  Read

Bonn, Germany: The first of some 400 polling officers recruited by the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) were fielded this week to help prepare East Timor's "popular consultation", a ballot scheduled for August which is to decide on the territory's special autonomy or separation from Indonesia. Read

Organising and observing elections and supporting humanitarian relief operations have been key areas of work for UN Volunteers since the early 1990s. Thousands of professionals have since been recruited by the Bonn-based UNV programme to help in elections in Cambodia, Mozambique, South Africa, Haiti, Liberia, the Central African Republic, Nigeria and Bosnia. Read

Bonn, Germany: More than 60 short-term EU electoral monitors will leave for Indonesia within the next few days to join 30 long-term EU Monitors recruited by the United Nations Volunteers programme. Read

Bonn, Germany: With National Assembly and Presidential Elections to be held on 20 and 27 February in Nigeria this year, the EU decided to give further support to the electoral process in the country. It would assist the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with international monitors. The EU requested UNV to recruit and field 100 Electoral Monitors on its behalf. UNV had already provided support to the UN Electoral Assistance Secretariat by assigning 24 Electoral Officers to Nigeria in early December last, 12 of them National UNVs. Read

Bonn, Germany: One hundred electoral monitors recruited by the United Nations Volunteers programme left for Nigeria to render support to the National Assembly and Presidential elections. Read

Bonn, Germany: One hundred electoral monitors recruited by the United Nations Volunteers programme will leave for Nigeria on 12 February to render support to the National Assembly and Presidential elections. Read

Bangui, Central African Republic: Security Council resolution 1201 of 15 October 1998 will go down as a red letter day here. The resolution extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA). Read