This is the UN General Assembly follow-up of advances that have taken place on volunteerism since the International Year of Volunteers was celebrated in 2001. It shows national disparities in the implementation of the outcome recommendations (see A/57/352). The level of adoption also varies within the United Nations system. Proposals on possible ways to mark the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers in 2011 included in the report and others that will be developed at regional and country levels are expected to build on the growth and diversification of volunteerism that the International Year helped to stimulate.

Informe sobre las llamadas realizadas al servicio telefónico de información y asesoramiento jurídico en materia de violencia de género.

We kept asking ourselves the economic value of the working time as volunteer. Points of Light Institute has come with the answer. They have created an on-line calculator that makes it possible. It estimates the appropriate wage rate for volunteer time based on what the person does, the value of specific tasks according to market conditions as reported by the US Department of Labor. Organizations can use the Calculator to determine the value of the time their volunteers give doing a wide variety of volunteer jobs. An American invention giving to think.