More than 60 aid workers have been killed in conflict zones since the beginning of 2023, the UN announced Thursday, as it prepares to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attack on its headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq.
Every year, the United Nations celebrates World Humanitarian Aid Day on August 19, the date of the suicide bombing in Baghdad that killed 22 people, including Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello, the UN special representative in Iraq.
In addition to the 62 aid workers killed, 84 have been injured and 34 kidnapped since early 2023.
In 2022, 116 aid workers were killed.
South Sudan, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Mali, Somalia, Ukraine and Yemen are some of the countries where the most people working for humanitarian aid organizations have died this year, most of them local workers.
Source: TSF
