Sérgio Vieira de Mello
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Sep 22, 2026
Rory StewartHOST
Algerian figure.
Rory StewartHOST
Sergio de Mello, who I was with in Iraq shortly before he was killed in 2003, these extraordinary figures, and on the ground they held their own with any general ambassador, foreign minister, and they really convened.
Rory StewartHOST
They're extraordinary.
Rory StewartHOST
Then on another level, the technical expertise-
Rory StewartHOST
Lakhdar Brahimi, maybe, in Afghanistan is a towering Algerian figure.
Rory StewartHOST
Sergio de Mello, who I was with in Iraq shortly before he was killed in 2003.
Rory StewartHOST
These extraordinary figures.
Rory StewartHOST
And on the ground, they... held their own with any general ambassador, foreign minister, and they really convened.
Louise WateridgeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The colleagues tell me that they would rather die together than die separately.
Dianne PennHOST
World Humanitarian Day is observed annually on the 19th of August, the date in 2003 when a bomb attack at the UN's headquarters in Baghdad killed 22 humanitarian workers, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Secretary General's Special Representative for Iraq.
Dianne PennHOST
In related developments, the World Health Organization has confirmed 1,940 attacks on health care in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion two and a half years ago.
Dianne PennHOST
This is the highest number the UN agency has ever recorded in any humanitarian emergency globally to date.