Monthly Archives: August 2023

Humanitarian action is important because of its consequences, especially for those affected people, and what is provided to them by those people who give themselves to humanitarian relief. On 19 August 2003, an attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad killed 22 humanitarian aid workers, including the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Five years later, in 2008, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring August 19 as World Humanitarian Day. Humanitarian workers venture deep into the affected areas and on the front lines and move forward towards providing humanitarian [Read More]