{"id":25501,"date":"2026-08-19T13:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=25501"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:50:42","slug":"world-humanitarian-day-un-calls-for-protection-of-aid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=25501","title":{"rendered":"World Humanitarian Day: UN Calls for Protection of Aid Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"1372\" data-end=\"1942\"><strong data-start=\"1372\" data-end=\"1406\">New York, United States (HRNW)<\/strong> \u2013 The United Nations is observing <strong data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1480\">World Humanitarian Day on 19 August<\/strong> by honouring humanitarian personnel who risk their lives to provide assistance during wars, disasters and other crises. UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has called on governments and armed groups to respect humanitarian law and ensure that aid workers can safely reach people in need. The day also commemorates the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, which killed 22 people, including humanitarian workers.<\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"103mbl6\" data-start=\"1944\" data-end=\"1964\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"1948\" data-end=\"1964\">Support HRNW<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1965\" data-end=\"2060\">Support independent human rights journalism and humanitarian reporting by contributing to HRNW:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2062\" data-end=\"2099\"><span class=\"contents\" data-content-reference-start=\"2076\" data-content-reference-end=\"2130\"><span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support HRNW<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"jn3j7p\" data-start=\"2101\" data-end=\"2119\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"2105\" data-end=\"2119\">Disclaimer<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2120\" data-end=\"2385\"><strong data-start=\"2120\" data-end=\"2135\">Disclaimer:<\/strong> This report has been prepared by HRNW using publicly available information from the United Nations and other reputable sources. HRNW is an independent news platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the United Nations or any of its agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, United States (HRNW) \u2013 The United Nations is observing World Humanitarian Day on 19 August by honouring humanitarian personnel who risk their lives to provide assistance during wars, disasters and other crises. UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has called on governments and armed groups to respect humanitarian law and ensure that aid workers can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25504,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions\/25504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}