Despite their charitable role aid workers aspect upward increasing levels of threat when carrying out their work. IRIN in addition to Humanitarian Outcomes accept mapped global aid worker attacks from 2000 until the cease of May 2015. In those xv years, over 3,000 aid workers accept been killed, injured or kidnapped. The Aid Worker Attacks map allows yous to explore where in addition to when aid workers accept been attacked since 2000.
When the map start opens yous are presented amongst an animated timeline of aid attacks over time. The map attempts to avoid the 'flashing dots' syndrome of a lot of animated timeline maps past times zooming inward on temporal hotspots of aid worker attacks. For example, when the timeline reaches 2007, the map zooms inward on Somalia to explicate how the ascension of the Al Shabaab extremist grouping resulted inward an increase inward aid worker attacks.
As the timeline animation plays a bar nautical chart at the bottom of the map too shows the seat out of aid worker attacks past times quarter. Once the animation has finished yous tin mail away explore the choropleth map of global aid worker attacks for the whole xv years. If yous click on a province the map volition zoom inward in addition to the bar graph volition update to exhibit the seat out of attacks inward the province past times quarter for the entire xv years.
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