Adilah and Sulaf first met each other at a training session in the United Nations Country Office in Malaysia. The two women sat through a session on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)....

In Chocó, access to safe water was already unfinished business before Monday, 10 August. UN Volunteer Jordan Mora had spent months there working as a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Expert with t...

From Guinea to Nicaragua, from North Macedonia to Uzbekistan, and from Australia to Peru, these Online Volunteers who joined the campaign come from geographically diverse places. Some are students, others are professionals. They are connected by a shared belief that peace begins with dialogue.As these Online Volunteers are the experts and influencers within their communities, they are able to lead peace and security dialogues that are tailored to the specific context in which they are set.

Volunteerism took center stage at the 2026 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York, where a series of side events spotlighted its role in tackling global challenges. T...

In 2013, that conviction brought me to join as a national UN Volunteer Specialist with UNDP in the Dominican Republic. Together with over 1,000 volunteers, I coordinated a national survey across all 32 provinces in which more than 220,000 Dominicans participated, placing the country 8th out of 193 nations in a global citizens' consultation on development priorities. That experience confirmed something I have carried ever since: when people are genuinely invited to shape decisions that affect their lives, they show up. Every time. Because participation is not charity. It is dignity.

Thirty years ago, UN Volunteering opportunities were far more limited than they are today. My journey evolved from field-level engagement to leadership roles with the United Nations Development Progra...