THE number of aid workers killed, kidnapped and seriously wounded has reached the highest number ever recorded, according to new figures published on Wednesday on World Humanitarian Day.

World Humanitarian Day marks the anniversary of the United Nations Headquarters bombing in Baghdad in 2003 when 22 people, including UN humanitarian veteran Sergio Vieria de Mello, lost their lives.

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