Youth for the SDGs enables youth participation in sustainability in Latin America

Youth for the SDGs
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Through “Youth for the SDGs” UNV is training and empowering young people in five countries in Latin America, enabling them to participate and engage in discussions and exchange experiences about the SDGs in their communities.

Volunteerism enables youth engagement, leadership and participation

Within Latin America and the Caribbean, young people between the ages of 15 and 24 account for 20 per cent of the population. This is the largest percentage of youth in this region, ever.  The statistics are dire: 35 million of these young people never attended school, 39 per cent live in poverty and 25 per cent are unemployed.

Online Volunteers join forces with UN DESA to collaborate on UN E-Government Survey across 193 UN Member States

UNV Online Volunteering Service
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Rupmani Chhetri, India's first differently-abled UN volunteer

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Till date, around 1,800 Indians have worked as international volunteers, but what makes Rupmani's case unique is the fact that she is the first differently-abled Indian to be selected for this role. 

UNAIDS and UN Volunteer in Lao PDR improve equity of healthcare services for stigmatized groups

Karinda Chuntavorn
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With UNAIDS, I worked with stigmatized groups of people that included homosexuals, sex workers, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Discussing socially sensitive issues with them opened my eyes to new perspectives and outlooks on life. It made me realize that, despite differences, we are all part of one humanity.

“I served with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. My six-month assignment helped me gain many invaluable experiences that contributed to my personal and professional growth,” says Karinda Chuntavorn, a UN Youth University Volunteer in Resource Mobilization. Her assignment was supported by the Agency for Volunteer Service (AVS) and the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Home Affairs Bureau (HAB).

Placing gender equality as one of the top priorities of Agenda 2030

Karol Alejandra Arámbula Carrillo
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In 2014, Karol Alejandra Arámbula Carrillo led a project as a Online Volunteer in partnership with The Red Elephant Foundation, based in India, the UNV Online Volunteering service and the MY World Global Survey on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, with the objective to position gender equality as one of the top priorities of international development.

Karol Alejandra Arámbula Carrillo (Mexico) has been a Online Volunteer since 2011. One of her motivations to join UNV’s Online Volunteering service was the desire to help organisations in other countries carry out their work, especially in the field of gender equality. 

Humanitarian crisis: What can I do to help?

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Advice for readers asking what they could do to help 20 million people facing the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria..

When youth shine, India shines

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Open Editorial by Toily Kurbanov, UNV Deputy Executive Coordinator during a mission to India to discuss global priorities between the government and UNV. 

Korea expands support to United Nations Volunteers scheme

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The Republic of Korea furthers its support for the United Nations Volunteers scheme.

Volunteerism is opportunity to grow

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Interview with Olivier Adam, UNV Executive Director, on the occasion of a strategic dialogue with the Korean Foreign Ministry.

Breaking gender stereotypes in Nepal

Anima Dhakal
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Immediately after the earthquake hit Nepal in April 2015, Anima Dhakal, a civil engineer, came to Karthali, Sindhupalchowk, to serve as a UN Youth Volunteer.

As one of the thirteen women who served as engineers in the demolition and debris management operations of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Anima supported the earthquake-affected areas by using her skills in a traditionally male-dominated field.

“Engineering is for boys while girls are supposed to study management and work in banks,” she recalls her uncle as saying when she was still a student asking for career advice years ago.

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