2023 Deadliest Year for Aid Workers-- & 2024 Could be Even Worse, Predicts UN

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (IPS) - Back in August 2003, the United Nations faced one of its violent tragedies when a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad claimed the lives of 22 people.

Among those killed was Sergio Vieira de Mello of Brazil, the UN envoy in Iraq and High Commissioner for Human Rights, who had a long and distinguished UN career stretching over 30 years.

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