The United Nations Volunteers is the United Nations organization that supports sustainable human development globally through the promotion of volunteerism and the mobilization of volunteers. Health UN Volunteers have worked in health care delivery, education and training. The involvement of United Nations Volunteer specialists in humanitarian relief and with refugees is a key element in the UNV programme's work toward sustainable post-crisis development. Human Rights UNV has both within its development work and alongside its humanitarian relief become increasingly involved in UN, national and local operations to promote human rights. The rise in poverty can be reversed.
Volunteers are at the forefront of our struggle to end poverty.
Since a UNV Special Consultation in 1991 on the role of volunteers in helping address urban poverty, participatory, community-based approaches have been applied intensively by UNV's working in the world's cities. The involvement of United Nations Volunteer specialists in water and sanitation issues is a key element in UNV's programme to improve health and sanitary conditions.