A/RES/70/129
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 February 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 28
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/481)]
70/129. Integrating volunteering into peace and development:
the plan of action for the next decade and beyond
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 67/138 of 20 December 2012 on integrating
volunteering in the next decade,
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,
Recognizing also that an approach to volunteering may consider drawing on
the notion of human security in accordance with all the provisions of General
Assembly resolution 66/290 of 10 September 2012,
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, acknowledging also the efforts of
the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to promote
volunteerism throughout its global network, and taking note of the work of other
volunteer-involving organizations at the local, national, regional and global levels,
such as the International Forum for Volunteering in Development and the
International Association for Volunteer Effort,
Welcoming the publication by the United Nations Volunteers programme of the
State of the World’s Volunteerism Report 2015: Transforming Governance, which
highlights that volunteerism provides a key channel for enhanced civic engagement
from the local to the national and global contexts through local capacity -building,
fostering social inclusion and promoting voice, participation, accountability and
responsiveness,
Welcoming also the integration of volunteerism into all relevant issues
considered at the United Nations, in particular the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, 1 as well as the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International
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