United Nations
A/RES/67/138*
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 February 2013
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 27
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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/449 and Corr.1)]
67/138. Integrating volunteering in the next decade
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 66/67 of 5 December 2011 on the tenth anniversary of
the International Year of Volunteers,
Recognizing that volunteerism is an important component of any strategy
aimed at such areas as poverty reduction, sustainable development, health,
education, youth empowerment, climate change, disaster risk reduction, social
integration, social welfare, humanitarian action, peacebuilding and, in particular,
overcoming social exclusion and discrimination,
Acknowledging the existing contribution of the organizations of the United
Nations system in support of volunteering, especially the work of the United
Nations Volunteers programme around the world, and acknowledging also the
efforts of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to
promote volunteerism throughout its global network, and the work of other
volunteer-involving organizations at the national, regional and global levels,
Welcoming the publication by the United Nations Volunteers of the first State
of the World’s Volunteerism Report, which highlights the global recognition of
volunteerism, with its core values of solidarity, reciprocity, mutual trust, social
inclusion and empowerment, as well as its positive effects on individual, community
and societal well-being, and commending the United Nations Volunteers programme
for taking the lead in producing the report,
Welcoming also the creation of momentum in developing common platforms
to increase support for volunteerism through the observance of the tenth
anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers in 2011, and urging all
stakeholders to accelerate the momentum in the recognition, promotion, facilitation
and networking of volunteerism and, in this regard, to renew their efforts for the
integration of volunteering,
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* Reissued for technical reasons on 15 July 2013.
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