{"id":133137,"date":"2024-08-20T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/un-warns-of-unacceptable-level-of-violence-against-aid-workers\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:45:04","slug":"un-warns-of-unacceptable-level-of-violence-against-aid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/un-warns-of-unacceptable-level-of-violence-against-aid-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"UN warns of \u2018unacceptable\u2019 level of violence against aid workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133137\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>On World Humanitarian Day the UN lashed out at the \u2018unacceptable\u2019 violence that has led to the deaths of 280 aid workers in 2023, a record that was fuelled by the war in Gaza and threatens to be surpassed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations on Monday condemned \u201cunacceptable\u201d levels of violence that are now commonplace against humanitarian workers after a record 280 were killed worldwide in 2023. And it warned that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is potentially fueling even higher numbers of such deaths this year. \u201cThe normalization of violence against aid workers and the lack of accountability are unacceptable, unconscionable and enormously harmful for aid operations everywhere,\u201d Joyce Msuya, acting director of the UN\u2019s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said in a statement on World Humanitarian Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith 280 aid workers killed in 33 countries last year, 2023 marked the deadliest year on record for the global humanitarian community,\u201d a 137 percent increase over 2022, when 118 aid workers died, OCHA said in the statement. It cited the Aid Worker Security Database which has tracked such figures back to 1997. The UN said 163 of those killed in 2023 were aid workers killed in Gaza during the first three months of the war between Israel and Hamas, mainly in air strikes.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan, wracked by civil strife, and Sudan, where a war between two rival generals has been raging since April 2023, are the next deadliest conflicts for humanitarians, with 34 and 25 deaths respectively.Also in the top 10 are Israel and Syria, with seven deaths each; Ethiopia and Ukraine, with six deaths each; Somalia at five fatalities; and four deaths both in Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In all the conflicts, most of the deaths are among local, rather than visiting foreign staff. \u201cWe demand an end to impunity so that perpetrators face justice,\u201d UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite 2023\u2019s \u201coutrageously high number\u201d of aid worker fatalities, OCHA said 2024 \u201cmay be on track for an even deadlier outcome.\u201d As of August 9, 176 aid workers have been killed worldwide, according to the Aid Worker Security Database. Since October, when Hamas-led militants launched a deadly raid into Israel, triggering the war, more than 280 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, the majority of them employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, according to OCHA.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, the leaders of multiple humanitarian organizations and UN agencies sent a letter Monday to UN member states calling for the end of \u201can era of impunity.\u201d \u201cAttacks that kill or injure civilians, including humanitarian and health-care personnel, are devastatingly common,\u201d said the letter, signed by groups including the World Food Programme and the International Committee of the Red Cross. \u201cYet despite widespread condemnation, serious violations of the rules of war too often go unpunished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each year the United Nations marks World Humanitarian Day on August 19, the anniversary of the 2003 attack on its Baghdad headquarters. The bombing killed 22 people including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN special representative to Iraq, and injured some 150 local and foreign aid workers. Marking World Humanitarian Day, the United States said \u201cwe owe humanitarian workers our gratitude for their service and our commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reaffirm our steadfast commitment to this work and continue to urge international partners to join us in stepping up their contributions to address growing humanitarian needs around the world,\u201d said the statement from National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett, which did not mention the record death toll.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/un-warns-of-unacceptable-level-of-violence-against-aid-workers-2\/article\">DJ<\/a><br \/>\n[\/newsletter_lock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/un-warns-of-unacceptable-level-of-violence-against-aid-workers\/\">UN warns of \u2018unacceptable\u2019 level of violence against aid workers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,402,15751],"class_list":["post-133137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-un","tag-world-humanitarian-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}