Attacks on aid workers reached record high in 2019
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Aid workers suffered a record 277 major attacks around the world last year, an independent humanitarian research organisation said on Monday, with healthcare workers responding to crises facing a spike in deadly violence. A total of 483 aid workers were killed, kidnapped, or wounded in 2019, showed data from Humanitarian Outcomes, […]
Aid worker killings rise, fuelled by conflict in South Sudan, Syria
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nearly 140 aid workers were killed last year, a 23 per cent rise on 2016, according to data released on Monday that showed South Sudan was the most dangerous country in which to deliver aid for the third year running. The figures revealed a dramatic increase in aid worker kidnappings and fatal […]