Policy and campaigns > UN and Council of Europe policy

 Year

 
Council of Europe policy

 2006

Portfolio for youth leaders and youth workers

[It underlines the value of informal, non-formal educational experience and emphasises the need to recognise it, particularly given the significance of life-long learning]

2003

Recommendation Rec(2003)8 on the promotion and recognition of non-formal education/learning of young people

2001

Recommendation 1496 (2001) - Improving the status and role of volunteers in society: a contribution by the Parliamentary Assembly to the International Year of Volunteers 2001

2000

Convention on the Promotion of a Transnational Long-term Voluntary Service for Young People

Recommendation on Social Cohesion and Quality of Life

1950

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Year

 

United Nations Policy

General Assembly (63rd session) - Follow-up to the Implementation of the International Year of Volunteers, Report of the Secretary-General [A/63/184]

 2003

General Assembly Resolution (57th session) - Follow-up to the International Year of Volunteers [A/RES/57/106]

General Assembly (56th session) - Support for volunteering, Report of the Secretary-General [A/56/288]

 2001

Economic and Social Council, Commission for Social Development (39th session) - The role of volunteerism in the promotion of social development [E/CN.5/2001/5]

 2000

General Assembly Resolution (55th session)  - International Year of Volunteers [A/RES/55/5]

 1997

General Assembly Resolution (52nd session) - International Year of Volunteers [2001A/RES/52/1]

1985

General Assembly Resolution (40th session)  - International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development [40/212]