Joyce Msuya is Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator.

World Humanitarian Day: Honouring Our Commitments to the People We Serve, and to the Humanitarians Who Serve Them

Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Joyce Msuya (center) in Marib City, Yemen. October 2022.
A partial view of the exterior of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, that was destroyed by a truck bomb on 19 August 2003. UN Photo/Timothy Sopp
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Joyce Msuya, accompanied by Government officials, UNHCR, ECHO and religious leaders, visited the remote Unión Wounaan indigenous community, Chocó Department, Colo

Year after year, the humanitarian community has risen to the challenge. Humanitarian operations have expanded, and more and more humanitarians have rallied to the cause.