United Nations Volunteers: Haiti

Volunteering to help break the silence in Haiti

08 March 2013

Miragoâne, Haiti: As a long-time human rights activist, wherever I am, I always try to integrate civil society, to support it and to share experiences. This is also one of the reasons why I decided to make a career break and to become a UN Volunteer with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme. While I was getting to know civil society better, in mid-November I came across the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Miragoâne (Haiti). Since 1993, 25 November is the best occasion to break and rebreak the silence around gender-based violence (GBV). Read

More about: MDG 3: Gender equality Volunteering advocacy

Working for Peace and Security within Haitian communities

09 October 2012

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: One of the most exciting things about being a UN Volunteer is having the chance to work across diverse activities which aim to help the Haitian people in a variety of ways. Being the focal point for ten separate Community Violence Reduction events to mark International Day of Peace on 21 September gave me exactly such an opportunity. Read

More about: MDGs: General Peace & conflict resolution Volunteering for Development

Training of trainers

25 July 2012

UNV Pierre Pinat, Training Officer IMTC MINUSTAH, leading a writing exercise of the training. (Isabelle Blanc/UNV FU 2012)

Port-au-Prince, Haiti:

The objective of the workshop Training of Trainers on writing English correspondence and reports in a peacekeeping mission, which took place in the Integrated Mission Training Centre (IMTC) in Log Base, MINUSTAH (Port-au-Prince), was to become more familiar with the uses of each type of written communication in the United Nations. It included several sections on editorial conventions related to abbreviations, capitalization, editing tips or spelling

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More about: Education

A peace dream

29 May 2012

Harold Thelemaque, UNV Transport Assistant, United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). (Photo: Self portrait)

Liberia: "One day,when my buddies and I were talking about different problems in the world, we realized that it’s because there was no real peace. I decided then and there how my life should be. I wanted to contribute in some small way. By becoming a UN Volunteer in a peacekeeping mission I am doing my bit for a peaceful world. I believe in dialogue and peace." Read

More about: Peace & conflict resolution

Countries: Liberia

Advancing justice

20 February 2012

Gonaives, Haiti: "Change is often slow within the field of law enforcement, but little by little we started to notice that the judicial process for several pre-trial detainees was speeding up, and that minors kept in detention were less frequently encountered." Read

More about: Human rights

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