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World Humanitarian Day

On this day in 2003, the UN offices in Baghdad were blown up by a truck bomb, killing 22 humanitarian workers and dedicated professionals, among them Sergio Vieira de Mello, a lifelong humanitarian who had saved lives and reduced suffering in some of... Full Article at normblog

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  3. World Health Organization

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  1. With the evolving nature of armed conflict and the changing attitudes of some belligerents, the deliberate targeting of humanitarian workers has increased, establishing a tension -- and in some situations a contradiction -- between the imperatives of staff safety and humanitarian action
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 3 months ago
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  1. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks at the U.S. Embassy at the Green Zone in Baghdad December 10, 2009. Secretary Gates stopped in Iraq following a two-day trip to Afghanistan one week after U.S. President Barack Obama announced that he will send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
  2. Palestinians collect aid packages from the United Nations at the Jabalya refugee camp, north Gaza Strip, in this October 7, 2004 file photo. Aid workers, killed on the frontlines of conflicts around the world, are being honoured for the first time.
  3. NEW YORK - AUGUST 19: Employees of the United Nations attend the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the truck bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad August 19, 2008 at the U.N. headquarters in New York City.

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