Calling out the culture of silence around gender-based violence in Mongolia
For 25-year-old Clémence Gallopin, volunteering is about "bringing people's voices and knowledge into collective actions and ensuring that no one is left behind". She serves as a UN Youth Volunteer with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Mongolia, where she has been contributing to a programme to combat gender-based violence.
According to the country’s first national gender-based violence survey in 2017, at least half of Mongolian women are expected to experience some form of gender-based violence in their lifetime, and one in three women had suffered violence in the year prior.
Latest SWVR finds volunteers capable of reconfiguring unequal power relationships between state and citizens
The 2022 State of the World’s Volunteerism Report, Building Equal and Inclusive Societies, presents new evidence on the relationship between volunteers and the state. It shows that the ways in which volunteers and state authorities interact, collaborate and partner are vital for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.