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Nadia Younes 1946-2003 | UN Archive Stories | United Nations

On 19 August 2003, a bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 22 humanitarian aid workers, including Nadia Younes, the Chief of Staff for Iraq. Five years later, in 2008, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 19 August as World Humanitarian Day (WHD). In her 33-year career with the United Nations, Nadia worked in New York, in Rome, Kosovo, Geneva, and lastly, in Iraq.  She contributed to many of the UN’s successes, including the Beijing Women’s Conference in 1995, the Millennium Summit in 2000 and the World Summit for Sustainable Development in 2002.  Nadia Younes moved from work in public information, where she served as Spokeswoman for two former UN Secretaries-General to being Chief of Protocol, and then to the World Health Organization, before being assigned to Baghdad as Chief of Staff.  She was about to return to New York, when her life was cruelly cut short in the Canal Hotel bombing.