John Holmes, the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs at the UN, recently wrote in the International Herald Tribune that “one of the world's largest and fastest-growing humanitarian crises is also among the least known: Iraq.”
Indeed, Iraqis now represent the third-largest displaced population in the world, and according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), their size is growing at a rate of 50,000 per month. Here is the Iraq crisis by the numbers:
Internally Displaced Persons: 2 million (UNHCR)
Refugees in Syria and Jordan: 2.2 million (UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR)
Refugees fleeing monthly: 50,000 (UNHCR)
Refugees (total): 4.2 million (UNHCR)
Iraqi refugee children: 500,000 (UNHCR)
Iraqi refugee children attending school: 60,000 (UNHCR)
Iraqi children with learning impediments from climate of fear: 92% (Association of Psychologists of Iraq)
Child malnutrition rate: 28% (UNHCR)
Iraqis living in "absolute poverty": 43% (NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq)
Hours of electricity in Baghdadis' homes per day: 2 (NCCI)
Iraqis who have access to clean water: 30% (NCCI)
Iraqis who cannot regularly buy enough to eat: 4 million/15% of the population (UNHCR). (Within this 4 million, only 60% currently have access to government-supplied rations.)
Amount of Iraqi refugees the U.S. pledged to resettle in fiscal year 2007: 2,500 (State Dept.)
Refugees resettled in US in June: 63 (IHT)
Refugees resettled in US in July: 57 (IHT)
Iraqi refugees accepted by U.S. to date in fiscal year 07: 190 (IHT)
Iraqi refugees processed by UNHCR: 160,000 (UNHCR)
Iraqi Refugees UNHCR has processed and referred to US: 8,000+ (UNHCR)
UNHCR appeal for large-scale assistance
program for Iraqis in Jordan and Syria: $123 million (UNHCR)
Amount of UNHCR appeal funded
by U.S. (traditionally 30%): $37 million (State Dept.)
International Organisation for Migration (IOM) appeal: $85 million (VOA News)
IOM appeal funded thus far: $23 million (ReliefWeb)
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Monday, August 06, 2007
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Guard against unexplained acronyms! What is "IDP"? Is it Indian Dog Prisons?
IDP = Interally Displaced Persons.
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