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Humanitarian Action Report 2009
UNICEFs 2009 Humanitarian Action Report (HAR) highlights the plight of children and women around the globe in humanitarian emergencies.
The Humanitarian Action Report is UNICEFs annual funding appeal for protracted emergencies and is seeking just over $1 billion to assist children and women in 36 countries. The amount sought is some 17 per cent higher than UNICEFs 2008 appeal, largely because of increased needs in eastern and southern Africa.
Many countries featured in the report are silent or forgotten emergencies, said UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman. Women and children are dying every day due to disease, poverty and hunger, but sadly their deaths go largely unnoticed.
The report notes that over half the funds are to continue UNICEF support to victims of the five largest global humanitarian operations: in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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