Help Protect Humanitarian Aid Workers World Wide

Support the Campaign to have 2010 be declared "The Year to Protect Humanitarian Aid Workers"

Since the beginning of the "War on Terror", the development community has witnessed a nearly one thousand fold increase of the targeting of international aid workers. Though the causes of this trend are up for debate, one thing is clear, until international recognition of this problem is addressed the violence will continue. Please add your name to join our efforts to better protect those individuals who are working in the field to improve the lives of the worlds most vulnerable.

A report by the Center for International Cooperation and the Overseas Development Institute tallies a total of 122 aid worker fatalities in 2008, including 45 in Somalia, 33 in Afghanistan and 19 in Sudan.

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[AP photo of an ambulance burning in the no-fire zone in Sri Lanka]

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Comments, Suggestions and Stories

Virag Kaufer @ 04:08AM PT Feb 01

Humanitarian work is important to protect people from disasters and also from inequalities imposed on them by local power holders.
Lyndsey Price Yonkers, NY @ 11:29PM PT Jan 11

Humanitarian Aid Workers need to get in to areas that are dangerous but where people are trapped and need help. Protection has to be provided in order for the person to provide the needed assistance.
VIRGINIA LIONATTO hartford, CT @ 09:43AM PT Jan 04
Pledge fulfilled Jan 04!

we can all do a little effort to help.i'll do mine.
Lisa Taylor Franklinton, NC @ 12:14AM PT Dec 04

We need to pray for these people like we've never prayed before!
Raymond Dantes Pittsburg, NH @ 12:01PM PT Nov 04

A very good cause to support. Everyone should do whatever they can to help others without fearing for their own lives. Helping to protect all aid workers is a must!
mike downs auxvasse, MO @ 09:33PM PT Oct 24
Pledge fulfilled Oct 24, 2009!

Pledge Completed! Many thanks
Teresa Gutierrez @ 09:01AM PT Oct 18

We need to value the lives of those who risk it for others.
Joycey Berry Canton, NC @ 05:31PM PT Sep 30

Thank you for making the pledge "Help Protect Humanitarian Aid Workers World Wide"

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Richard Reinoehl @ 04:00PM PT Sep 21

Humanitarian Aid Workers are performing vital, life giving services to some of the most vulnerable people in the world. This service occures in some of the most dangerous places in the world and the Workers need to be expertly protected. They save so many lives that giving their own lives should absolutely not be part of the price they pay.
Anastasiya Snigireva @ 11:36PM PT Sep 17

it is necessary to raise awareness of people abput the problem, besides one of the most impirtans missions of person is to help other