Unicef calls for international community to aid Iraqi children

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Unicef calls for international community to aid Iraqi children

Child protection news

23 May 2007

Unicef has called on the international community to improve living conditions for those Iraqi children affected by violence and displacement.

The organisation has called for $42 million of funding to provide relief over the next six months for children in Iraq as well as those families who fled to neighbouring Syria and Jordan.

Nearly 15 per cent of the Iraqi population have fled their homes since 2003, which equates to around four million people - half of whom were children.

Daniel Toole, acting deputy executive director of UNICEF, said: "Humanitarian aid offers a lifeline to Iraq's children and stepping up support now is the best way to protect and invest in Iraq's future.

"Plans are in place to reach Iraq's most vulnerable children with basic health, water, sanitation and education support – particularly displaced children living in host communities, as well as children living in Iraq's most violent districts."

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