World Humanitarian Day: It takes a village
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Laura Shear Laura Shear
Posted Aug 19, 2022 7 min read
World Humanitarian Day: It takes a village

On August 19, 2003, a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 22 humanitarian aid workers. In 2008, the UN General Assembly designated this date-August 19-as World Humanitarian Day (WHD) to commemorate aid workers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. Each year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) [...]

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