{"id":73530,"date":"2025-08-19T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73530"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:17:55","slug":"383-aid-workers-killed-in-2024-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/19\/383-aid-workers-killed-in-2024-says-un\/","title":{"rendered":"383 Aid Workers Killed in 2024, Says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations on Tuesday reported that a record 383 humanitarian workers were killed in 2024, a 31% increase from the previous year, describing the figures as a \u201cshameful indictment\u201d of global inaction.<\/p>\n<p>Already in 2025, 265 deaths have been recorded as of August 14, raising deep concern over worsening threats.<\/p>\n<p>Conflicts in Gaza (181 deaths) and Sudan (60 deaths) accounted for most of the fatalities, with the UN noting that state actors were the primary perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of victims were local staff, killed while on duty or at home.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the fatalities, 308 aid workers were wounded, 125 kidnapped, and 45 detained in 2024, underscoring the escalating dangers of humanitarian work in conflict zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven one attack against a humanitarian colleague is an attack on all of us and the people we serve,\u201d said UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher. \u201cAttacks on this scale, with zero accountability, are a shameful indictment of international inaction and apathy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher stressed that violence against humanitarian workers violates international law and disrupts lifelines for millions in crises.<\/p>\n<p>He urged governments and armed groups to protect civilians and aid personnel and ensure justice for perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>The UN also drew attention to mounting attacks on healthcare workers.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO), reported more than 800 attacks across 16 territories in 2025, killing over 1,110 health workers and patients, with hundreds more injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach attack inflicts lasting harm, deprives entire communities of life-saving care, and weakens already strained health systems,\u201d the WHO warned.<\/p>\n<p>World Humanitarian Day, marked on August 19, commemorates the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people, including UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The United Nations on Tuesday reported that a record 383 humanitarian workers were killed in 2024, a 31% increase from the previous year, describing the figures as a \u201cshameful indictment\u201d of global inaction. Already in 2025, 265 deaths have been recorded as of August 14, raising deep concern over worsening threats. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73532,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73530\/revisions\/73532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}