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