Ashley Judd Instagram – As a @UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, I join the humanitarian community today on #WorldHumanitarianDay, urging leaders to #ActForHumanity.
Humanitarians bring hope when lives are ripped apart and the world is reduced to ashes and rubble. From Ukraine and South Sudan to Bangladesh and Türkiye, the humanitarians I have met delivering UNFPA’s services to women and girls are brave and inspirational, dedicating their lives to saving others, even when their own worlds have been turned upside down.
2023 marked the deadliest year on record for humanitarian workers, and 2024 is on track to be even worse. These facts expose a glaring truth: the world is failing humanitarian workers and, by extension, the people they serve. While civilians, including aid workers, pay the ultimate price in unconscionable numbers, the perpetrators continue to evade justice, destroying homes, livelihoods, families and women’s bodies with impunity.
This failure of humanity, responsibility and leadership cannot be allowed to continue. Attacks on humanitarian and health workers and assets must stop. Attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure must stop. They are #NotATarget.
It is time for those in power to end impunity and #ActForHumanity. | Posted on 19/Aug/2024 19:56:40
