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UNV volunteers help respond to Haiti food crisis
29 April 2008
Supporting MINUSTAH, UNV volunteer Emmanuel Sannoh checks tickets for food distribution in Haiti. (Mario Rizzolio/UNV)
Cite Soleil, Haiti: With the global food crisis occupying the headlines, UNV volunteers have been helping to manage emergency food distribution in Haiti. Read
Promoting 'Rule of Law' in Darfur
08 April 2008
West Darfur is a long way from my home in North Carolina in the southern part of United States of America. But my path to El Geneina makes sense in light of my work in the region.  Read
Countries:  Sudan
'Impartial' international UNV volunteers help feed Somalis
14 February 2008
Children in Merca, Somalia benefit from a "Food For Education” programme organised by the World Food Programme and supported by United Nations Volunteers. (Saidamon Bodamaev, Somalia, 2008)
International UNV volunteers make up nearly 10 per cent of World Food Programme's international staff in Somalia. The perceived impartiality of international staff, says the WFP head in the country, is useful in facing local clans' sensitivities.
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Countries:  Somalia
UNV volunteers to be mobilized for peacekeeping support in Sudan
31 August 2007
Children living in a refugee camp in Sudan. (UNV 2007)
Bonn, Germany: The UN Volunteers programme (UNV) is preparing to deploy the first of almost 600 UNV volunteers to the Darfur region in Sudan to provide substantive and mission support ranging from human rights and child protection to medical services, communications and logistics. Read
Countries:  Sudan
A UN Plea for Non-Violence in Nepal
03 August 2007
This weekend saw the arrival of the first of 124 international United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) who together with 43 Nepalese UNVs will be deployed as district electoral advisers. Read
Countries:  Nepal

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