A member of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights stands near Red Cross trucks loaded with apples at the Kuneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria (REUTERS/Nir Elias).
Blog Post
August 19, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris
On World Humanitarian Day, Elizabeth Ferris highlights this as a time to remember and honor humanitarian workers everywhere, risking their lives to assist the people and places devastated by war and disaster. However, she also emphasizes World Humanitarian Day as an opportunity to look inward and acknowledge the collective failure of the international community that is unable to prevent the conflicts that make humanitarian work necessary.
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