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Aid Worker Security Report 2015 | Figures at a glance

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23 June 2016
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Aid Worker Security Report 2015 | Figures at a glance

Humanitarian Outcomes presents a snapshot of findings from 2014 based on data from the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD). In 2014, 190 major attacks against aid operations occurred, affecting 329 aid workers in 27 countries. This represents a decrease of roughly 30 per cent from last year’s all-time high. However, numbers of attacks remained higher than in previous years.

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