Bonn, Germany: The year 2000 saw thousands of East Timorese crossing borders to get home after post-referendum violence forced them to flee as refugees. UN Volunteers also came back as soon as possible to help sow seeds for a new nation. From fisheries to forestry, from trade to treasuries, they are playing an integral role with the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). Read

Bonn, Germany: The 70 UN Volunteers serving with the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) - providing supplies, functioning vehicles and satellite communications - do not lay down their tools at the end of the day. In evenings and on weekends, they get together as the UNV Action Team and extend their volunteer services to districts of the capital Freetown, such as in Kissy. Read

Bonn, Germany: Fifty UN Volunteer specialists attached to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) have returned from Banjul, The Gambia, where they were relocated earlier this month due to the deteriorating security situation. Read

Bonn, Germany: The Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) is expanding its work in Kosovo by recruiting and fielding an additional 400 volunteer specialists to register the population and carry out other reconstruction tasks of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Read

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) has recruited and deployed more than 60 volunteer specialists to take up a range of assignments providing services to the recently established United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL). Read

Bonn, Germany: Ghanaian Jasper Ayelazuno was one of 200 UN Volunteers assigned as civil administration support officers to the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Last September,  Jasper was being greeted upon arrival in Pristina by shocking evidence of the war — destroyed villages — as the plane made its final approach before landing. On his way to town, vehicles on the road without registration plates sent him another message: there is precious little law and order. Read

Dili, East Timor: Six months after the outbreak of post-referendum violence in East Timor, tensions have eased and East Timor is slowly finding its way back to normalcy.  International staff members arrive in Dili on a daily basis, there will be 1,200 international staff in East Timor, including 500 United Nations Volunteers. Read

Bonn, Germany: The first of 70 volunteer specialists recruited by the Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) arrived this week in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown to take up a range of assignments providing services to the recently established United Nations mission in the strife-torn West African country. Read

Bonn, Germany: UNV has started deploying 200 international volunteers in Kosovo to assist with civil administration procedures following a request from the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). Read

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) has started deploying 200 international Volunteers in Kosovo to assist with civil administration procedures following a request from the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). Read