United Nations
A/RES/60/134
General Assembly
Distr.: General
31 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 62
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/501)]
60/134. Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year
of Volunteers
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/106 of 26 November 2002 on the follow-up to the
International Year of Volunteers,
Recognizing the valuable contribution of volunteering, including traditional
forms of mutual aid and self-help, formal service delivery and other forms of civic
participation, to economic and social development, benefiting society at large,
communities and the individual volunteer,
Recognizing also that volunteerism is an important component of any strategy
aimed at, inter alia, such areas as poverty reduction, sustainable development,
health, disaster prevention and management and social integration and, in particular,
overcoming social exclusion and discrimination,
Noting with appreciation the efforts to increase understanding and awareness
of volunteerism through research, global information-sharing and education,
including efforts to develop an effective network for volunteers through, inter alia,
the World Volunteer Web 1 and linked national sites,
Acknowledging the existing contribution of the organizations of the United
Nations system to supporting volunteering, including the work of United Nations
Volunteers around the world,
Bearing in mind the need for an integrated and coordinated follow-up to the
International Year of Volunteers to be pursued in the relevant parts of the United
Nations system,
1.
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General; 2
2.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General in response to the report
of the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations-Civil Society Relations; 3
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1
www.worldvolunteerweb.org.
A/60/128.
3
A/59/354.
2
05-49564