Archive for August 19th, 2024

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19/08/2024

2023 Deadliest Year for Aid Workers – 2024 Could be Even Worse, Predicts UN

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 2024 (IPS)*– Back in August 2003, the United Nations faced one of its violent tragedies when a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad claimed the lives of 22 people.
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Among those killed was Sergio Vieira de Mello of Brazil, the UN envoy in Iraq and High Commissioner for Human Rights, who had a long and distinguished UN career stretching over 30 years.

As the UN commemorated World Humanitarian Day on August 19, it continues to be confronted with rising death tolls among both its humanitarian workers and peacekeepers worldwide.

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19/08/2024

Health and Humanitarian Workers Face Record Violence: Here Are 5 Reasons the World Must Take Action

Human Wrongs Watch

UNITED NATIONS, New York, 18 August 2024 (UNFPA)* – There were more than 1,500 attacks on health facilities last year. More than 280 humanitarians and at least 750 health workers and patients were killed.

Four people in UN vests stand amid the rubble of a destroyed building
The Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza was completely destroyed following a bombing raid by Israeli forces. © UNFPA/Dominic Allen

These numbers were racked up not on battlefields, but in hospitals, in homes, in vehicles delivering vital medical care, in spaces designed to be safe. 

More health workers and patients were killed or injured in 2023 than any previous year – a grim record the world is on track to beat in 2024.

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19/08/2024

Education on Hold: Sudan War robs Young People’s Hope for the Future

Human Wrongs Watch

By Moulid Hujale in Kosti, Sudan

An entire generation is facing a bleak future as continued violence in Sudan disrupts education for millions.

Ibrahim Abdulrahman inside the classroom he shares with dozens of other forcibly displaced families in Kosti in Sudan’s While Nile State. © UNHCR/Samuel Otieno

14 August 2024 (UNHCR)* — When Ibrahim Abdulrahman’s name was announced on national radio as the top performing student in the country’s high school examinations in 2020, his achievement was celebrated by everyone in his small mountainous village of Al-Dambaire in Sudan’s North Kordofan State.

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