Honduran President Porfirio Lobo says the United States is sending people to help Honduras battle the violent crime that led to the withdrawal of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers this week.
The U.S. Embassy in Katamandu says Peace Corps volunteers will return to Nepal seven years after they left during the peak of a Maoist rebel insurgency.
The U.S. government's decision to pull out all its Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras for safety reasons is yet another blow to a nation still battered by a coup and recently labeled the world's most deadly country.
All 158 Peace Corps volunteers in Honduras left the country on Monday, weeks after the United States announced that it would pull them out for safety reasons.
Honduran officials on Friday lamented a U.S. decision to pull 158 Peace Corps volunteers out of the Central American country in January for safety reasons.
The Peace Corps will pull out of Honduras in January amid concern over rising violence in the country.
The U.S. government is suspending training for new Peace Corps volunteers in the Central American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador while it assesses security concerns.
In a Nov. 18 story on the departure of the Peace Corps from Kazakhstan, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the program's workers had been subject to terrorist attacks there. Peace Corps workers have been sexually attacked in the Central Asian nation, but the terror attacks were against others.
The U.S. Peace Corps will pull out of the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, a move that follows reports from volunteers about a spate of sexual assaults and Islamist-inspired terrorist attacks on the program's workers.
Congress has responded to complaints that the Peace Corps hasn't done enough to protect its volunteers from sexual assaults with legislation requiring the agency to better train participants in how to avoid such attacks.
A House panel has approved legislation to improve safety and security for Peace Corps volunteers after criticism that the agency did little to train its workers to deal with violent attacks such as rape and murder.
The Peace Corps said Friday that a former volunteer's alleged sexual abuse of young girls in South Africa is "reprehensible" and the agency supports the vigorous prosecution of the case.
Artists from remote sections of Colombia, Peace Corps volunteers and performers sharing the history of rhythm and blues music opened the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall on Thursday.
One of Sargent Shriver's sons is writing a tribute to the late Peace Corps founder.
When IBM executive Chandu Visweswariah went to Rio de Janeiro as part of a volunteer team to help city officials plan to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, he found himself immersed in a mash-up of a corporate Peace Corps and "The Apprentice."
It was an extraordinarily dramatic scene, even for Congress: three Peace Corps volunteers raped while serving overseas, along with the mother of a fourth who was murdered in Benin, complaining to lawmakers about one of the government's most revered agencies.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday to examine the handling of sexual violence and other crimes against Peace Corps volunteers after a number of victims publicly complained about the agency's conduct.
His 19 grandchildren read short remembrances, U2 frontman Bono led mourners in singing "Forever Young" and fond memories and laughter filled a funeral service for R. Sargent Shriver, the 95-year-old statesman laid to rest this weekend.
R. Sargent Shriver, the ever-upbeat Kennedy in-law who served as the nation's first Peace Corps director and later led a national assault on poverty, was remembered Friday evening as an energetic idealist who left a legacy of public service.
A wake is set in Washington for R. Sargent Shriver, an in-law of the Kennedys and the first director of the Peace Corps.
For all his accomplishments — Peace Corps director, ambassador, leader of the war on poverty — R. Sargent Shriver ultimately became known first as an in-law.
The Peace Corps has suspended its operations in Niger and evacuated its workers from the west African nation due to security concerns following the kidnapping and murder of two French citizens claimed by an al-Qaida affiliate.
BETHESDA, Md. - Sargent Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family and a former U.S. vice presidential nominee who served as the first Peace Corps director, died on Tuesday. He was 95.
A spokeswoman for the family of R. Sargent Shriver says the former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee was in critical condition at a hospital in Maryland.
I kept telling everyone, "I couldn't do this." Maybe I could have when I was 22, but that was a while ago. We were traveling through the small African villages outside Bo, Sierra Leone's second largest city. They're tiny communities. One was about a 20-minute walk down a dirt road that grew more narrow and more overgrown with brush as we made our way. We were visiting several American Peace Corp volunteers who had just arrived here a couple of weeks ago to begin a two-year commitment as teachers in local schools. The volunteers live with host families who "adopt" them, where they live as their families do. Life becomes very, very basic.We watched as Jessica Arriens began her day drawing water from a well for a morning bucket shower. There's a trick to lifting the water from the well without spilling most of it, a trick Arriens thinks she's finally learned. There is no running water here. No electricity either. It's very hot and dusty, temperatures hover in the 90s
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Sitting in the plant-filled patio of his home outside the capital, anti-corruption crusader Gustavo Alfredo Landaverde uttered what few people have the courage to say out loud in this poor Central American nation:
Puzey was killed in Badjoude, Benin, soon after she reported a colleague for allegedly molesting some of the young girls they taught.
<blockquote> After an ABC News report about the murder of a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, Congress has passed a bill designed to protect whistleblowers and improve the treatment of victims of violence and sexual assault. "We're so gratified, and actually amazed, that i …
Mission positive international service at its best!
"Updated The House of Representatives dealt a symbolic blow to President Obama on Friday by resoundingly failing to approve a bill authorizing the contentious military operations in Libya.
"Bay Area Democrats split Friday over a resolution to deny President Obama authority for the U.S.
Jess Smochek was in her early twenties when she was gang-raped in Bangladesh during her stint as a Peace Corps volunteer.
More than 1,000 young American women have been raped or sexually assaulted in the last decade while serving as Peace Corps volunteers in foreign countries...the Peace Corps has ignored safety concerns and later tried to blame the women who were raped for bringing on the attacks.
In his inaugural address, President John F.
It's considered unsportsmanlike to say, "We told you so." But since all's fair in love and war and we're definitely at war, it's fair to say the peace movement has been right about the whole sordid reality of US war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Lexington residents Angene and Jack Wilson, authors of the forthcoming Voices From the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, talked with dozens of returned volunteers in Kentucky and allowed them to speak of the effects the corps has had on their lives and they had on …
In the dead of night on Saturday, a Tea Party-driven group of House members voted to kill AmeriCorps, completely eliminating all funding.
Viewers responded to ABC News' "20/20" investigation of the murder and rape of female volunteers in the Peace Corps with an outpouring of grief and anger – but also with heartfelt defenses of the Peace Corps – on Facebook and Twitter.
This interview with Kennedy aide and Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver, which ran on the front page of the Monitor on May 6, 1963, offers a look at the Corps just two years after its founding, at a time when it had just over 4,000 volunteers.
R. Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy in-law who became the founding director of the Peace Corps, the architect of President Lyndon B.
Mr. shriver was a great man, yes he lived a great life but his presence will be missed, I was diffnatley a man who cared about others.
A summary of President Obama's promises that he either could not or would not keep.
As we celebrate the Peace Corps heading into its 50th year and honor International Volunteer Day this Sunday, we must also recognize that despite significant contributions by more than 200,000 who have served as volunteers in 139 nations, we haven't done enough.
Several former Peace Corps workers write about their service in the Peace Corps in this article on the Cincinnati Enquirer's website.
Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- An American aid worker died from a gunshot wound suffered in the southern African nation of Lesotho, the Peace Corps said in a statement.
Just when we thought that we had heard all the offensive, Nazi-related comments that could possibly be uttered, we are proven wrong with a vengeance.