Act for Humanity: World Humanitarian Day Statement by Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif

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and Nigeria, where millions of children are out of school, and millions more face grave risks including child marriage and other forms of gender-based violence, recruitment into armed groups, killing, maiming, abduction, and other atrocities.

We must act for humanity in Afghanistan, where an entire generation of girls and women are systematically denied their rights, including the upcoming three-year mark of the ban on Afghan girls' education. We must act for humanity for the girls and boys living in fear and under attack in Ethiopia, Sudan, Ukraine, and other armed conflicts. We must act for humanity for the Rohingya people and refugees and other repressed groups who face violence, discrimination and hate on a daily basis.

We must act for humanity to mobilize more funding resources, ethically guided political will and solid support for the United Nations and other organizations that continue to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid across the globe.

2023 was the deadliest year on record for humanitarian workers. Yet, 2024 could be even worse; so far this year, 333 aid workers have already been killed, kidnapped or wounded according to the Aid Worker Security Database.

These facts lay bare a glaring truth: the world is failing both humanitarian workers and the people they serve. This is why we must act for humanity. Now.

In honor of all human beings suffering inhumanity – irrespective of race, ethnicity, religion, political opinion or gender – on this World Humanitarian Day I conclude with these eternal and universal truths once spoken by Martin Luther King Jr:

"Every person must decide, at some point, whether they will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness… An individual has not begun to live until he/she can rise above the narrow horizons of his/her particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

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