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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S VIDEO/WRITTEN MESSAGE ON WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY

New York, 19 August 2021

Humanitarian workers are here to help the world’s most vulnerable people when disaster strikes.

But around the world, aid workers face growing threats. In the past 20 years, shootings, kidnappings, and other attacks on humanitarian organisations have increased tenfold. This year alone, at least 72 humanitarian workers have been killed in conflict zones....