{"id":29140,"date":"2013-08-19T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29140"},"modified":"2013-08-19T17:02:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T13:02:23","slug":"united-nations-secretary-general-message-for-world-humanitarian-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29140","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Secretary-general message for World humanitarian day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9-20-2012_68411_l1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29141\" alt=\"9-20-2012_68411_l\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9-20-2012_68411_l1-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Every year on August 19th, we mark World Humanitarian Day in honour of aid workers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We commemorate their sacrifice and reaffirm our commitment to the life-saving work that humanitarians carry out around the world, every day, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances where others cannot or do not want to go.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s commemoration marks the 10th anniversary of the attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed Special Representative Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other United Nations colleagues and partners.\u00a0 That tragedy was among the inspirations for this Day.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio was a vocal advocate of the values and mission of the United Nations.\u00a0 He touched the lives of all who met him, and helped millions of poor and vulnerable people in a life of service on several continents.\u00a0 His death was a great loss to the United Nations, but his legacy has motivated many people to pursue humanitarian work.<\/p>\n<p>This year, our World Humanitarian Day campaign is calling on people to answer a question: What do you think the world needs more of?\u00a0 I urge people everywhere to go to www.worldhumanitarianday.org and tell us, in one word, what you think.<\/p>\n<p>My word is \u201cteamwork.\u201d\u00a0 In a time of global challenges, people and countries need to work together in common cause for peace, justice, dignity and development.\u00a0 That is the humanitarian spirit.\u00a0 That is the humanitarian imperative of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on August 19th, we mark World Humanitarian Day in honour of aid workers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-daily-news","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}