Practitioner Profiles: On World Humanitarian Day, Reflections on the Bombing of the UN in Baghdad

Summary: Each year on August 19th, the international community observes World Humanitarian Day, marking the occasion of the bombing of the UN headquarters in the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003 in which 22 staff members and visitors were killed. As we commemorate the lives lost in the pursuit of humanitarian action around the globe, and the continued risks to aid workers in the field, what have we learned since 2003? In this episode, ATHA speaks with Claude Bruderlein, Strategic Advisor to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and a former member of the Independent Panel appointed by the UN Secretary-General to investigate the Baghdad bombing.