Select a time period:

  • 1990s, Humanitarian cowboys and cowgirls

  • 1994, UN: Protection for staff in high-risk settings

  • 1996, Chechnya: Six ICRC staff killed

  • 2001, Afghanistan: Perceived neutrality in peril

  • 2003, Iraq: Aid workers are deliberate targets

  • 2006-2007, Sri Lanka and Algiers: Aid worker casualties mount

  • 2008, Are aid worker casualties increasing?

  • 2009, UN: World Humanitarian Day

  • 2011, Shifting policy: From risk aversion to risk acceptance

  • 2012, ‘Remote management’

  • 2013, Somalia: An ‘untenable imbalance’

  • 2015, Afghanistan: US airstrikes destroy MSF hospital and kill 42 people

  • 2016, UN: Healthcare under fire

  • 2019, Worst year on record for aid worker casualties

  • 2020, ‘Deconfliction’