World Humanitarian Day!
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Annaborgia (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/08/26
World Humanitarian Day is August 19, 2016. It is an annual reminder about the need to alleviate the suffering of others. 130 million people live each day suffering from a crisis of one form or another.
“One Humanity” is the theme of World Humanitarian Day, which is scientifically accurate. We’re all one species. This highlights coming together for humanity. There was the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul earlier in the year.
Every day, humanitarian aid workers are on the forefront of difficulties, disasters, and war. World Humanitarian Day is a day of solidarity with those in most need based on their difficulties.
Individuals have to make these harrowing choices between medicine and food for families. This is a day founded in memory of the 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq.
There will be many happenings in solidarity. For instance, in New York, there’ll be a ceremony that will lay a wreath at the United Nations headquarters in addition to a high-level event in the General assembly Hall.
There is a digital campaign that will be launched for awareness and consciousness raising about the choices that individuals are forced to make in crisis situations.
Humanitarian aid workers are some of the most important people in the effort towards humanitarian ideals. In a way, humanitarian ideals are humanistic principles implemented in the real world. That touches and warms my heart. Thanks, UN!
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