UNV
United Nations Volunteers, UNV was established in 1971 as a volunteer-based and a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly. The headquarter is in Bonn in Germany.
Activities
The UNV was started in order to
- serve as an operational programme in the development cooperation of the UN system globally
- take advantage of the expertise and experience that exist among volunteers.
Volunteers
The programme is administered by the UNDP, which has created a resource bank of candidates with categories according to educational level and experience. The volunteers are well qualified, trained and experienced experts comprising fifteen professional categories.
Requirements for volunteers are generally:
- relevant experience from field work
- a minimum age of 25 years
- a university degree.
The UNV has become an important source of experienced specialist professionals for developing countries and for the UN agencies.
More on UNV
- The UNV website provides background information, news, full text documents and reports.
- Annual report.
- State of the World's Volunteerism Report offers an overview of volunteerism in the 21st century and demonstrates new trends and visions for the future.
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- United Nations Digital Library offers UN documents and open access publications, UN voting data and speeches, UN maps, Content in 6+ languages. Replaces the traditional online catalogue UNBISnet.
- UN iLibrary UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS full-text UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
- Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
- Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
- a list of all documents
- a comprehensive subject index
- an index to speeches
- a voting chart of resolutions
- United Nations Documents Index (United Nations Digital Library) References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
UN Documents available online
- All UN documents from 1993-.
- All resolutions of the Principal Organs from 1946-.
- All Security Council plenary documents from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- All supplements to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR) from 1946-.
- All General Assembly plenary meeting records from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- Older documents are being scanned: Update on UN Digitization Programme.
Last modified: 2023-11-23