Three weeks ago a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook the world. Since then we have struggled to come to grips with images of devastation, suffering and grief which will forever be engraved on our collective memory. But there are also other images that permeate this tragedy, like a shaft of light: the sight of the volunteers who rushed to places of destruction to offer their help. 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: The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) has received a donation of US$100,000 from its Honorary Ambassador, Mr. Takehito Nakata of Japan, for its work in the area of human security. Read

Bonn, Germany: UNVs helped governments put the rights of children and young people onto their agendas. Read

Bonn, Germany: A large portion of UNV's work with children has been carried out in cooperation with the chief CRC advocate -- UNICEF. More than 800 UN Volunteers (UNVs) have worked with UNICEF since UN Volunteers started development work in the field in 1971. 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: 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

Bonn, Germany: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is fifty years old. In the preamble to its thirty articles, it notes the reaffirmation of "faith in fundamental human rights" outlined in the United Nations Charter. Read