By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: United Nation (UN) World Humanitarian Day will be marked on August 19 (Wednesday) across the globe including Pakistan.
August 19 is the anniversary of the 2003 Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad where twenty-two people lost their lives including, UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. World Humanitarian Day is a day dedicated to humanitarians worldwide, as well as to increase public understanding of humanitarian assistance activities.
