Greater valuation of humanitarian work and discussion of the risks and obstacles in the way of humanitarian work are sensitive and essential issues. There are many people who have risked their lives for the sake of humanitarian aid, with selflessness and sacrifice, during crises, wars, destruction, the spread of diseases and natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, just to help the victims.
Barzani Charity Foundation has played a vital role in this regard, for example, this organization and its teams, before all international aid organizations were present at the scene of earthquake disasters in North and West Kurdistan, Turkey and Syria.
According to the United Nations, only in 2022, more than 475 humanitarian workers have been killed by terrorists and extremists worldwide.
In the Kurdistan Region, after the fighting against ISIS terrorists and the displacement of millions of people, Barzani Charity Foundation has been a major center for humanitarian work and has served the victims of war in more than 30 refugee camps.
World Humanitarian Day is not only a commemoration of the past, but also an appeal to ourselves and the future to recognize and support the value and importance of humanitarian work. It is an invitation to all of us to assess our political and human responsibilities.
Here is the important question:
Is the future of human work on the line of politics, or on human beliefs and values?
Barzani Charity Foundation, while celebrating the International Humanitarian Day, emphasizes that humanitarian workers have often been under pressure from various armed forces and targeted, or prevented from delivering their aid.
Humanitarian workers are not the heroes of Hollywood movies; They are anonymous volunteers, doctors concerned about refugees, people who quietly work humanitarianly in the midst of crises.
If the world is to truly commemorate World Humanitarian Day, all countries must prove their responsibility and take responsibility for protecting humanitarian donors.
The assassination of Sergio Vira de Mello and his colleagues in Baghdad is a clear sign that humanitarian work is not without risks and that a plan must be developed to counter these conspiracies.
On August 19, 2003, Sergio Vira de Mello, the UN High Representative for Iraq, and 22 others were killed in a terrorist attack at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad. In 2009, the United Nations officially declared this day as World Humanitarian Day
World Humanitarian Day to commemorate the victims of humanitarian work everywhere in the world.
