In Iraq, humanitarian aid worker and activist Marla Ruzicka of Lakeport California died on Saturday in a car bombing. She was the founder of a group called Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict. Over the past few years she spent most of her time in Iraq and Afghanistan. She continued going into Iraq even after most international aid organizations and relief agencies had bailed out. The Christian Science Monitor reported that when she died Marla was traveling to visit Iraqi families that she was working to help. Lately, she had been attempting to aid the relatives of a toddler whose parents were killed after the mini-bus they were traveling in was hit by what was believed to be an American rocket. Ruzicka got much of her training in aid work at Global Exchange.

• Medea Benjamin, of Global Exchange:

A funeral service will be held in Lakeport, California on Saturday at St. Mary’s Church.