By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Humanitarian groups in conflict zones need to reconsider how they protect aid workers now that insurgents no longer provide immunity for relief work, aid experts said on Wednesday. Attacks on humanitarian workers have increased steadily over the past decade, with 474 workers killed, kidnapped or seriously wounded in 2013, compared to 143 in 2003, according to Aid Worker Security Database statistics last updated on Wednesday. The database showed that kidnappings alone shot up to 141 in 2013, from only seven ten years earlier. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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