This year the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme celebrates International Volunteer Day (IVD) on 5 December with the theme ‘Volunteering for our Planet’. UNV wants to highlight how important it is for people everywhere to get involved as volunteers in finding solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

IVD is celebrated two days before the start of the United Nations Conference in Copenhagen which will discuss, and hopefully agree on, collective action to address Climate Change. We

This year’s International Volunteer Day on 5 December occurs just days prior to the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. There, it is hoped that world leaders will make progress on an agreement which is positive for our climate and for poverty reduction and development too.

While a new climate agreement is urgently needed, each of us can also make an enormous difference for the better in protecting our planet and achieving the MDGs. Volunteers and volunteerism have an

В рамках объявленного ООН Международного Года по изучению прав человека, в Бишкеке продолжается серия Семинаров "Права человека в системе международного права и национального законодательства Кыргызской Республики". Очередной, четвертый в серии семинар "Права детей: вопросы ювенальной юстиции в Кыргызской Республике" состоится 26 ноября 2009 г. в 11.30 в Кыргызской Государственной Юридической Академии (пр. Чуй 180а, первый этаж, конференцзал, ауд. 215)

Студенты Юридической Академии и других

Средним школам предлагается представить одну фотографию на тему "Чистая окружающая среда -  мое право!"  Заявки будут приняты только от учащихся школы, обучающихся c 5 по 11 классы.

Как принять участие
Необходимо отправить ваши фотографии в электронном формате на адрес: с  контактными данными лидера группы или индивидуального автора. Фотографии также можно принести в запечатанном конверте или отправить по почте по адресу: Программа волонтеров ООН, Дом ООН, Проспект Чуй

BISHKEK (1 October 2009) – Students, journalists and professionals from NGOs and civil society dealing with protection of and advocacy for Human Rights attended yesterday, October 1st, the second of a series of seminars on the instruments for the implementation of the International Human Rights Law (IHL) in Kyrgyzstan.

This second event – entitled “Legal Protection of women in Kyrgyzstan” – was organized to illustrate some of the main challenges in the area of gender equality and women's rights

BISHKEK - On October 1st 2009 at 11:30 the second of a series of seminars on the Implementation of International Human Rights Law (HRL) in Kyrgyzstan will be organized by OHCHR and UNV, in collaboration with the League of Volunteers and the League of Young Lawyers. Venue for the event will be the Conference hall of the Juridical University in Bishkek (Chui Avenue, 180a, 1st floor, Conference Hall, Room 215). Theme of this second seminar will be the Legal Protection of Women.

The event aims at

Students of the International University of Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) were recently offered the opportunity to attend a seminar on HIV/AIDS. The seminar was organized as a collaboration between United Nations Volunteers and the League of Volunteers and offered to first- and second-year students a venue to learn and discuss about HIV, AIDS and ways to prevent the transmission of the virus.

BISHKEK – Students and professionals from NGOs and civil society dealing with protection of and advocacy for Human Rights attended on Tuesday, June 16th the first of a series of seminars on the instruments for the implementation of the International Human Rights Law (IHL) in Kyrgyzstan.

The first seminar - entitled “Protecting Human Rights in Kyrgyzstan” – illustrated the different instrument Kyrgyz citizens have to protect their rights under IHL. Mr Erlan Alimbaev, lawyer, National United