World Humanitarian Day 2014

World Humanitarian Day is a day to commemorate all people who have lost their lives in humanitarian service and to celebrate the spirit that inspires humanitarian work around the world.

11 years ago, on 19 August 2003, 22 aid workers were killed in a bombing at the UN headquarters in Baghdad. Despite this and other attacks on aid workers, the humanitarian community has not been deterred from its mission to respond rapidly and effectively to emergencies.

PHAP’s members are engaged in humanitarian action worldwide, working with a wide variety of different organizations. This World Humanitarian Day, we have asked some of them to share reflections on their work through video interviews, from which the PHAP team has produced a short film.

Individual PHAP member interviews

The theme of this year's World Humanitarian Day focuses on individual humanitarian workers. To facilitate on-going consideration of the important issues raised by these experienced practitioners, we will also release one full interview each day over the coming months, starting today.

Please click on the photos below to watch the videos.

Yannick Guégan 19 August	Cynthia Petrigh 20 August	Yousaf Jogezai 21 August	Volker Hüls 22 August	Boisy Williams 23 August
Diane Paul 24 August	Liesbeth Schockaert 25 August	Muhammad Fayyazi 26 August	Peter Walker 27 August	Gerson Brandao 28 August
Melinda Wells 29 August	Megbaru Ayalew 30 August	Marco Sassòli 31 August	Zvidzai Maburutse 1 September	Kitka Goyol 2 September
Martin Damary 3 September	Marco Rotelli 4 September	Terrance Wesbrock 5 September	Hazel Siri 6 September	Chris Piper 7 September
Marc Cohen 8 September	Simon Robins 9 September	Laurent Saillard	Jason Andean	Kate Newton
Holly Hughson	Livio Mercurio	Moustafa Osman	Dario Carminati	Nick van Praag
Nuran Higgins	Omar Almajdalawi	Paul White	Diego Fernández Otegui	Ramesh Rajasingham
Rebecca Dodd	Robyn Kerrison	Saifeldin Nemir	Sasa Loncaric	Maereg Tafere
Steven Sano	Katherine Kramer	Thabo Ndlovu	Truphosa Anjichi	Victor Buhendwa Mirindi
Alejandro Del Aguilar Murphy	Benedetta Gualandi	Jemilah Mahmood	To be announced	To be announced
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PHAP members in other World Humanitarian Day initiatives

We would like to draw to your attention to a few other ways in which PHAP members were involved with recognizing World Humanitarian Day:

• Publication of an OpEd by Ross Mountain, particularly recognizing the contributions of the many Lebanese staff and volunteers involved in assistance efforts for Syrian refugees.
• Launch of Emergency AIDio, a radio program for humanitarian workers, by Nuran Higgins and first guest appearance on the program by Jemilah Mahmood.
• Speech by Michael Møller and unveiling of a plaque in the Palais des Nations in Geneva to commemorate the UN staff killed and injured in the attack on the UN offices in Algeria in 2007, as well as blog post on Huffington Post.
• Featuring of Hazel Siri in the UN-produced film “Humanitarian Heroes”