Report: 8 million Iraqis need emergency aid; 43% of Iraqis live in 'absolute poverty'; 28% of kids malnourished; 70% lack adequate water

Above: Iraqis gather for handouts of food and water in Baqubah in June.

Violence masking humanitarian crisis in Iraq: Oxfam

Oxfam warned in a report Monday that unabated violence in Iraq is masking a humanitarian crisis that has worsened since the US-led invasion in 2003, putting at risk almost eight million Iraqis...

According to the 45-page report released in Amman, almost eight million Iraqis are in need of immediate emergency aid with children the hardest hit by worsening conditions. An estimated "43 percent of Iraqis suffer from 'absolute poverty'."

"Children are hit the hardest by the decline of living standards. Child malnutrition rates have risen from 19 percent before the US-led invasion in 2003 to 28 percent now," it said.

Among the eight million Iraqis in dire need of assistance are more than two million who are displaced within the country and more than two million who have sought refuge in neighbouring Jordan and Iraq.

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Report Finds Dire Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq

Poverty, hunger and public health continue to worsen in Iraq, according to a report released today from Oxfam International...

The report states that as many as four million Iraqis are in dire need of help getting food, many of them children; 70 percent of the country now lacks access to adequate water supplies, up from 50 percent in 2003, and 90 percent of the country’s hospitals lack basic medical and surgical supplies.

One survey cited in the report, completed in May by the Iraqi Ministry of Planning, found that 43 percent of Iraqis live in “absolute poverty,” on less than $1 a day.

Unemployment and hunger are particularly acute among the estimated two million people displaced from their homes by violence — those who “have no incomes and are running out of coping mechanisms,” the report says.

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