World Humanitarian Day: Protecting Those Who Help Others

Event remarks · August 20, 2026

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Opening solidarity statement

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Presenter opened by framing attacks on humanitarian workers as collective attacks on the humanitarian movement, declaring that "an attack on any one of us...is an attack on all of us."

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A presenter warned that technological advances are enabling day-to-day attacks on humanitarian workers and civilians, invoking the Canal Hotel bombing 23 years ago and urging that technology not outpace accountability.

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