World Humanitarian Day is held every year on nineteenth August to pay tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service, and to rally support for people affected by crises around the world.
According to reports, around the world, conflict is forcing record numbers of people from their homes, with over sixty-five million people now displaced.
Children are recruited by armed groups and used to fight and women are abused and humiliated.
As humanitarian workers deliver aid and medical workers provide for those in need, they are all too often targeted or treated as threats.
From people with disabilities, to the elderly, migrants, and journalists, all civilians caught in conflict need to be protected.
United Nations is calling on people everywhere to join the “Not -A -Target movement” and demand world leaders to do everything in their power to protect all civilians in conflict.
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