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United Nations Secretary General António Guterres lays a wreath during a ceremony at the UN in New York on Aug. 17 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people. The anniversary day, Aug. 19, is now observed annually as World Humanitarian Day.UN photograph by Eskinder Debebe

Opinion

BY AZADEH TAMJEEDI

August 24, 2018

Aug. 19 was a day that was keenly felt by my colleagues at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). This day has been designated as World Humanitarian Day, when we honour the 22 colleagues who lost their lives in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad 15 years ago. It also serves as an occasion to reme...

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