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Aid Worker Fatalities: A Growing Global Trend

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A report released by the United Nations last month documented 490 attacks on UN offices, convoys, and premises between July 2007 and June this year, resulting in the deaths of 26 staff. "At least 63 workers with [non-governmental organizations] were murdered during the same period," adds the UN News Center.

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