Humanitarian aid workers are more at risk now than they were during the 1990s, according to a U.K.-based think tank.
The Overseas Development Institute claimed that the likelihood of aid workers getting killed at present is four times higher than the risk they faced in the 1990s, Morning Star reports.
At least 260 humanitarian aid workers were involved in some 155 serious attacks in 2008, ODI and New York-based Center for International Cooperation have found. This is nearly a fourfold increase from the 27 reported incidents involving aid workers in 1998.
The two research groups note that humanitarian aid work operations are now riskier than U.N. peacekeeping activities.
