Conditions for Iraqi children worsen sharply: UNICEF

UNICEF said the information gleaned from people leaving Iraq, and from the agency’s “quite limited” access within the country, indicated that the number of female-headed households has increased “dramatically” because mostly men have been killed in the violence there.

So if anyone asks what this invasion and occupation of Iraq by American forces meant, this should answer it. The Iraqi people’s interests were never taken into consideration. They continue to be neglected, criminally. The situation in Iraq continues to spiral out of control, with talk of a further American escalation of the war.

America is determined not to lose its barrel of oil in the sun, at the expense of an entire people.

Conditions for children in Iraq have deteriorated sharply in recent years as their humanitarian plight has fallen largely into neglect, a senior UNICEF official said Monday.

“I have no doubt whatsoever that the condition today is much worse,” Dan Toole, acting deputy executive director of the UN Children’s Fund, told journalists after being asked for a comparison with the situation under Saddam Hussein’s regime.

“Children who have had to flee Iraq — and millions have fled — are much worse off than a year ago and they certainly are much worse off than they were three years ago,” he added.

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