Riyaz Patel
As part of this year’s World Humanitarian Day (WHD) commemorations, the UN and its partners are launching the #WomenHumanitarians global campaign to pay special tribute for the work women do to save lives and alleviate human suffering.
Across the globe, 250,000 aid workers are women – a figure that amounts to more than 40 percent of the humanitarian workforce, the UN said.
The day is commemorated each year on 19 August, the date back in 2003 when the UN headquarters in Baghdad was targeted by a large terrorist truck bomb, killing 22 people, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN’s most senior representative in Iraq.
The attack sixteen years ago on UN Headquarters in Iraq was one of the most lethal in the Organization’s history, and marked a turning point in how the UN and aid groups operate in the field
Marking the tenth anniversary of
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