International day celebrating lives lost in humanitarian causes
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World Humanitarian Day
Also called
WHD
Observed by
UN Members
Date
19 August
Next time
19 August 2024 (2024-08-19)
Frequency
Annual
First time
19 August 2009
World Humanitarian Day is an international day dedicated to recognize humanitarian personnel and those who have died working for humanitarian causes. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly as part of a Swedish-sponsored GA Resolution A/63/L.49 on the Strengthening of the Coordination of Emergency Assistance of the United Nations,[1] and set as 19 August. It marks the day on which the then Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 of his colleagues were killed in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad.[2]
^United Nations General Assembly Session 63 ResolutionA-63-L.49. World Humanitarian Day A/63/L.49 11 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
^"World Humanitarian Day - August 19". National Today. 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
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