World Humanitarian Day; United Nations honours aid workers across the globe

The General Assembly designated 19 August as World Humanitarian Day to coincide with the date of the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, seen above, in which 22 people lost their lives. (Photo | UN News Centre)

According to the estimates by the United Nations, around 4,132 aid workers have been attacked over the past 20 years. Last year, 91 were killed, 88 injured and 73 kidnapped, the majority of them in South Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia. Above, a health worker gives polio vaccine drops to an Afghan child in a refugee camp in Pakistan. (Photo | AP)

By selecting 'NotATarget' as the theme for World Humanitarian Day 2017, United Nations reaffirms that the civilians are ot the target of humanitarian violations. (Photo | UN News Centre)

South Sudanese refugees queue to receive a lunch of maize mash and beans, at the Imvepi reception centre, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. (Photo | AP)

Displaced Syrian children from Deir Ezzor are seen at a make-shift camp some seven kilometres from Arisha in the neighbouring province of Hasakeh. (Photo | AFP)

Women are sexually abused by fighters, then shamed by their villages. The females photographed above are 'night commuters,' carrying sleeping bags to the urban Kitgum district in search of shelter to avoid attacks and abduction by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. (Photo | UN News Centre)

A Sudanese Red Crescent employee gives medical treatment to South Sudanese refugees as many flock across the border in Sudan's White Nile state. (Photo | AFP)

Food donated by USAID is prepared at a transit centre for South Sudanese refugees. (Photo | AP)