GENEVA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th August, 2018) Humanitarian aid workers have been facing an increasing number of security challenges over the last few years, while lack of access and red tape continue to be a problem as well, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer told Sputnik.
"Unfortunately we see over the last couple of years ... growing numbers of security challenges for humanitarian work," Maurer said.
According to the ICRC president, the tendencies have generally been negative in the last few years.
"But it is not only the security of the humanitarian workers ... It is also the lack of access, the administrative hurdles that humanitarians get confronted with, also the disrespect for national humanitarian law," Maurer explained.
The ICRC president stressed that most deaths of humanitarian workers occurred in only a few spots, and 80 percent of displaced persons had fled from the same spots.
Maurer said that these challenges had to be faced, and the international community had the necessary capabilities.
