UNICEF: $1.2 billion appeal to help children in conflict and disaster areas
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Channel: United Nations · 2010 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, 4 February 2010 - The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) today launched an appeal for $1.2 billion to help provide life-saving emergency support to women and children impacted by the most severe humanitarian crises around the world, including the Haitian earthquake. The appeal is part of UNICEF's Humanitarian Action Report 2010, released in Geneva today, which spotlights the desperate situation of children and women in 28 countries and territories facing deep humanitarian crises. UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director Hilde Johnson, who launched the report, said that Haiti was already in severe crisis prior to the earthquake. She added with the earthquake, the challenges especially with child protection has increased manifold.
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