Statistics on the increasing number of attacks on humanitarian aid workers

	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Number of incidents	63	63	74	107	123	165	155	130	152	170	264
Total aid worker victims	143	125	172	240	220	278	296	254	309	277	474
Total killed	87	56	53	87	88	128	109	72	86	70	155
Total injured	49	46	96	87	87	91	94	84	126	115	178
Total kidnapped*	7	23	23	66	45	59	93	98	97	92	141
International victims	27	24	15	26	34	51	75	46	29	49	57
National victims	116	101	157	214	186	227	221	208	280	228	417
UN staff	31	11	27	61	39	65	102	44	91	60	110
International NGO staff	69	69	112	110	132	157	129	148	141	86	136
LNGO and RCS staff	35	43	28	55	35	46	55	47	77	105	206
ICRC staff	8	1	3	10	4	5	9	10	5	3	14

Security risks in places like Syria and Iraq are so high that NGOs often have to operate remotely. That means the UN and other groups rely heavily on local humanitarian organizations to operate in conflict zones. The local aid workers are often the ones most at risk — not the Americans and Europeans who tend to capture the headlines when something goes wrong on a particular aid mission.

Key for organization type

• UN: United Nations
• INGO: International non-governmental organization
• LNGO and NRCS: Local non-governmental organization or National Red Cross / Red Crescent Society
• ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross
• IFRC: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

[Source: aidworkersecurity.org]

This entry was posted in Humanitarian Aid, International Cooperation by Grant Montgomery.