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PHOTO ESSAY - UNICEF HUMANITARIAN
ACTION APPEAL 2008
PHOTOS - WOMEN & GIRLS
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UNICEF Issues
Annual Appeal to Meet Needs of Children and Women in Global Emergencies
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UNICEF’s
annual Humanitarian Action Report appeals for funds to meet the needs of
children and women affected by emergencies around the world – including those
plagued by poverty and recurrent conflict, like this child in Chad. |
By Elizabeth Kiem
NEW YORK, USA, 12 February 2008 – Calling on donors to help address 39 specific crises around the world, UNICEF today launches its annual Humanitarian Action Report outlining the organization’s funding requirements for emergency work in 2008.
The report details financial needs beyond regular country programme budgets. The appeal for more than $850 million worldwide targets the largest allocations for Pakistan, Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“From Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Iraq, Zimbabwe and Sudan, children and women continue to bear the brunt of conflict, displacement and deteriorating conditions,” UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman writes in a foreword to the report.
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