By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that United Nations staff and humanitarian field workers are being deliberately targeted for attack by extremists, armed groups and disgruntled elements at an alarming level.
In a report to the UN General Assembly, Ban said the number of deaths of UN civilian staff members as a result of malicious acts rose to 25 in the year ending June 30, 2008 up from 16 the previous year - an increase of 36 percent.
The year ending in June was also the worst in recorded history for humanitarian and other nongovernmental organizations, which lost 63 national and international workers to malicious acts, he said.
"I'm gravely concerned by the wide scale of threats, the rise in deliberate targeting of humanitarian and UN personnel and their vulnerability worldwide," the secretary-general said in his report. "The security of humanitarian and United Nations personnel continues to deteriorate."
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