HUMANITARIAN DISASTER

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Submitted by antarchi on August 2, 2007 - 08:50

"The terrible violence in Iraq has masked the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Malnutrition amongst children has dramatically increased and basic services, ruined by years of war and sanctions, cannot meet the needs of the Iraqi people. Millions of Iraqis have been forced to flee the violence, either to another part of Iraq or abroad. Many of those are living in dire poverty."

Jeremy Hobbs, director of Oxfam International

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A recent report by Oxfam and other aid organisations working in Iraq claims that:

  • 43% of Iraqis suffer from 'absolute poverty'
  • Four million Iraqis – 15% - regularly cannot buy enough to eat.
  • 70% are without adequate water supplies, compared to 50% in 2003.
  • 28% of children are malnourished, compared to 19% before the 2003 invasion.
  • 92% of Iraqi children suffer learning problems, mostly due to the climate of fear.
  • More than two million people – mostly women and children - have been displaced inside Iraq.
  • A further two million Iraqis have become refugees, mainly in Syria and Jordan.

You can find further facts and figures here on the humanitarian disaster in Iraq that is now everyday life.

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