aid workers

Attacks on aid workers are rising, accountability is dwindling, and protection systems are chronically underfunded. The Brussels Conference on the Protection of Aid Workers on 15 and 16 October 2026, should move beyond expressions of concern and deliver concrete commitments on prevention, duty of care, monitoring, accountability, and respect for International Humanitarian Law (IHL), with particular attention to the needs and leadership of national and local humanitarian actors. 

Principals of Affected United Nations entities and International Non-Governmental Organizations renew their call for the immediate release of detained personnel

To commemorate World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, Oxfam and over 400  humanitarian organizations sent a joint letter to the Member States of the United Nations General Assembly asking the international community to end attacks on civilians, protect all aid workers, and hold perpetrators to account.

The World Humanitarian Day – which began 19 August 2003 – is a day to commemorate all the lives and efforts of Oxfam staff and partners working on the frontlines amidst ever more complex and difficult environments.

A group of seven major humanitarian aid organizations condemns the recent killings and attacks on South Sudanese aid workers in Maban County in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan.