They worked on peacekeeping and reversing climate change, on empowering women and reducing plastic waste in the oceans, on helping people forced to flee their homes and so much more.
The route—which links the Ethiopian headquarters of the African Union with the African headquarters of the United Nations in Kenya—is so familiar to many of us that it is sometimes called the “UN shuttle.” A tragedy along this flight path was almost certain to hit the UN hard.
They were joined on the ill-fated flight by many other civil society partners and humanitarians—a constellation of advocates and activists that the UN brings routinely together. At a time when many cast doubt on international cooperation and even deride the very notion of multilateralism—remember these lives cut short and their mission.
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