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  Iraq Press Room 

This page provides journalists with up-to-date briefing notes from the UNICEF office in Baghdad, as the country rebuilds.Updates, fact sheets (answering questions such as how many children live in Iraq, what percentage is malnourished etc.); press releases; video B-roll from May 2003; reports, including the 1999 Iraq child mortality report and recent field reports for donors; photo galleries; and how to support UNICEF information. The list of UNICEF press officers and spokespersons is also on line

        WHO Documents - Situation Reports for Iraq

       One in five Iraqis suffers from chronic poverty: Survey World Food Program 6/19/03

       CARE International in Iraq

UNICEF and Partners Push Ahead With Polio and Measles Campaigns for Iraqi Children (february 2003)

  Unicef 2002 report: "Overview of Nutritional Status of Under-fives in South/Centre Iraq". Original MS Word format - Malnutrition in Iraq - The New UNICEF Study by Ramzi Kysia 23/11/2002

   Household Food Security in Iraq: Some Food for Thought

   Summarized Situation of Children and Women in Iraq

   Health situation in Iraq (march 2002) – powerpoint presentation

   UNICEF report 2000

   UNICEF Report 1999 on the rise of child mortality in Iraq due to sanctions.

   UNICEF actions in Iraq

        "Unicef in Iraq": an overview of Unicef's work in and for Iraq. 

       The Situation of Children and Women in South and Central Iraq - a summary of the humanitarian situation.

       The Situation of Children and Women in Northern Iraq - a summary.

       Iraq: Donor Update (11 July 2001) - brief reports on entrenched malnutrition, high rates of child illness, the education crisis, the decline in water and sanitation facilities, and the lack of safe water for half of the rural population.

       For CASI's full index of Unicef information, see here.

 

        FAO report on Food & Nutrition Assessment Mission to Iraq on 3 October 1997

 

       FAO published an assessment of the food and nutrition situation in Iraq in September 2000

       FAO reports malnutrition remains a serious problem -- October 10, 1997

• Text version of The Situation of Children in Iraq: An Assessment Based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (February 2002). Also accompanying press release of 21 November 2002

• Iraq Press Room

• 2002 Humanitarian Appeal Report (January - December 2002)

• Donor Report of 7 October 2002

• Donor Report of May 2002

• Report of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef): The Situation of Children in Iraq: An Assessment Based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (February 2002).
  This is an incomplete transcription of the report, based on a copy obtained by CASI (19 September 2002). Update: a PDF file containing scanned images of the entire report (4Mb) is now available [added 2 October 2002].

• World Food Programme Iraq - North Coordination Office: “Oil For Food” – Food Basket Adequacy Assessment Survey (November 2001).
  Survey of households in Northern Iraq finds satisfaction with the oil-for-food rations, but that they "are not sufficient to cover all the nutritional needs of the population." This copy is labelled as a draft, and was released to CASI in September 2002.

• UNDP-Iraq produces a monthly newsletter on Iraqi development news. The link to the website changes monthy but can be accessed from their website under 'Update Newsletter'.