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August 31, 2010

UN: Iraq Still Faces Humanitarian Crisis
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The United Nations refugee agency says Iraq is still facing a
humanitarian crisis with 1.5 million people still internally displaced
in the country. Daniel Endres, the representative of the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees in Iraq, said there is widespread concern that
Iraq’s humanitarian crisis will be forgotten as attention shifts
elsewhere.

Daniel Endres: "It’s very important that post-conflict or transition
countries—because part of it is still conflict—receive
sufficient support for a certain period, because statistics show that
the majority of post-conflict situations plunge back into conflict
within seven years. And very often you can trace it back to a lack of
attention or not sustained support in these critical post-conflict
years."



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