On August 19, 2003, a truck bomb tore through the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, the UN’s headquarters in Iraq, killing 22 people, including the gifted diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello. Five years later, the UN General Assembly turned that tragedy into an annual reminder: humanitarian work is not safe, comfortable, or thankless in the abstract - it is dangerous, specific, and carried out by people with names and families. That is why World Humanitarian Day matters. In a world numbed by the scale of suffering — Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the slow-moving disasters of climate change — humanitarian workers are the ones who still walk towards the wreckage rather than walk away from it. They are proof that decency has not been argued........

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