The Aid Worker Security Report 2011

An August 2011 report by EISF shows that the overall decrease in violence against aid workers is caused by “fewer humanitarian workers in [dangerous] areas, and greater restrictions on the movement and activities of those remaining, rather than increased peace and security.” The Aid Worker Security Report 2011 found that this was partly due to the U.S. cutting 89 percent of funding to Somalia and “government restrictions on foreign humanitarian activity in the Darfur region” of Sudan.

The report also found that “aid worker attacks have become increasingly politicized in conflict environments such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan as aid providers are seen as associated with Western political and military agendas.”