An UN aid worker was abducted yesterday in Guinea in an attack that left another staff member dead. Three United Nations relief workers had been killed last week in East Timor.
List goes on and on.
United nations and its affiliated relief organizations often send people in war torn countries, civil wars and just plain mayhem. These brave souls work under most extreme of conditions often under hostile conditions with little or no reward but personal satisfaction of helping the world's poor and disenfranchised. It is time for the United Nations to take greater steps to protect its staff engaged worldwide in peacekeeping, development and humanitarian work. UN should come up with stricter guidelines as to where they can operate and where they cannot, when to pull the staff out and stay out ot the conflict area. UN should also put pressure on some governments in the areas they operate who are responsible for law and order.