Records relating to keyword "Humanitarian situation"

• 'Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq' (main report published in the Lancet) (29 Oct 2004)
  
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  Published in UK medical journal The Lancet.

  "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100 000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths."

  Authors are Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, and Gilbert Burnham of the Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies (CIEDRS) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

  Also available from the Lancet website.

• Iraq Analysis Group Briefings
  
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  Briefings by Mike Lewis of IAG on the UK Government's response to the Lancet Iraq Mortality Survey. The responses are found lacking in a number of respects; in particular, they seem to suggest that the Government does not consider "interpolation" from a sample a valid technique. If meant in earnest, it implies a rejection of all statistical analysis.

• Iraq Displacement Review Mid-Year 2007 (July 2007)
  
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  This summary states that "Iraq is experiencing the worst human displacement of its history", with over 4 million Iraqis affected. Figures are provided on the background, intentions and needs of internally displaced Iraqis.

• Red Cross Report: 'Iraq: civilians without protection' (11 Apr 2007)
  
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  Report released by International Committee of the Red Cross on 11 April 2007, reporting that the humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate: "The suffering that Iraqi men, women and children are enduring today is unbearable and unacceptable. Their lives and dignity are continuously under threat."

  The report covers (although with little detail):

  • worsening provision of electricity, sewage, healthcare
  • reports of growing malnutrition levels, and food shortages in some areas
  • a 'water crisis', with inadequate quality and quantity of drinking water, despite some imporvements in the south
  • family separation due to the high levels of detention by the Iraqi government, and large internal displacement.

  Also details emergency humanitarian assistance supplied by the Red Cross/Red Crescent in Iraq.

• UNAMI Human Rights Report January-March 2007 (Apr 2007)
  
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  In this document, UNAMI report that:

  • 736,000 Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes since February 2006, in addition to the 1.2 million already displaced.
  • 4 million Iraqis are "acutely vulnerable due to food insecurity"
  • 54% of the Iraqi population are living on less than $1 per day, 8% on less than $0.50 per day
  • The Baghdad Security Plan has inadequate human rights safeguards
  • The Iraqi government has been withholding data on casualty figures from the UN.

  The report also discusses attacks on journalists and academics, mass killings in Baghdad, sectarian violence, suicide bombings, attacks on Yezidi and Turkomen minorities, poor conditions for Palestinian refugees, honor killings and other discrimination against women

  Media coverage: Guardian, IRIN, Reuters, Washington Post

• Report of the Secretary-General. December 2006-February 2007 (07 March 2007)
  
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  "The standard of living of all Iraqis has fallen", according to this report. 1.9 million people are now internally displaced within Iraq, in addition to 2 million Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries. The report also covers recent political developments, the security situation, and UN activities.

• Coming to Terms with the Humanitarian Imperative in Iraq (01 Jan 2007)
  
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  Summary of forthcoming study on perceptions of humanitarian needs and activities in Iraq.

  Based on interviews with Iraqis, and with NGO workers in Iraq, carried out Oct-Dec 2006 by Iraqi researchers for the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University (USA).

  Findings include:

  • Blurred distinctions between military, political, commercial and humanitarian actors: "Our fieldwork in different regions of Iraq confirms that it is now often virtually impossible for Iraqis (and sometimes for humanitarian professionals) to distinguish between the roles and activities of local and international actors, including military forces, political actors and other authorities, for-profit contractors, international NGOs, local NGOs and UN agencies."

  • the only exceptions to this (and to the relative lack of aid providers' openness and transparency) were local religious charities and mosques, although these were also subject to some pressure from parties and militias.

  • importance of perceived neutrality of aid providers. "Neutrality is not an abstract notion in Iraq. Our research indicates an acute readiness among Iraqis to distinguish between aid providers that have taken sides, and those that have not; however, readiness does not necessarily equate to ability."

  • Decline of 'neutral' aid funding: "important sources of “neutral” funding fell off sharply in mid-2005....Our interviews with a range of humanitarian organizations still operational inside Iraq indicate that since the escalation of inter-communal violence sparked by the Samarah Mosque bombing in February 2006, bilateral donors and ECHO have generally been unresponsive and resistant to operational innovations on the ground."

  • Declining security situation in centre/south in recent months, accompanied by increasing secrecy and uncertainty amongst aid providers, which hampers their operational effectiveness and their transparency

• Report of the Secretary-General, September-November 2006 (05 Dec 2006)
  
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  Quarterly report of the UN Secretary-General on the situation in Iraq

• Iraq: Humanitarian Crisis - Post War Rehabilitation (03 Nov 2006)
  
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  Red Cross/Crescent report on the situation in Iraq

• Report of the Secretary-General (01 Sept 2006)
  
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  This report covers developments between June and August 2006. It was discussed by the UN Security Council on 14 December, in Meeting 5523

• Report of the Secretary-General (02 June 2006)
  
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  Summarises developments in Iraq from March to May 2006.

• Iraq Emergency Situation: Trends in violence, Humanitarian Needs, preparedness (02 May 2006)
  
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  Report produced by the NGO Cordination Committee in Iraq, supported by Oxfam, on the humanitarian situation in Iraq

• Report of the UN Secretary General, 3 March 2006 (03 March 2006)
  
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  Quarterly report of the Un Secretary General to the Security Council on the Situation in Iraq, pursuant to SCR 1546. Covers events since 7th of December 2005. In this report, Kofi Annan draws attention to the "de facto arbitrary detention" by the US and Iraq of thousands of prisoners, and states that the "extent of such practices is not consistent with the provisions of international law governing internment for imperative reasons of security". He also draws attention to allegations of human rights abuses doing military operations by the MNF and indicates that UNAMI is investigation these.

  The report also contains extensive comment on the follow up to the December 2005 elections, as well as on continued reconstruction efforts by UNAMI.

• "How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?" (09 Jan 2006)
  
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  Article by Andrew Cockburn in Counterpunch.

  "President Bush's off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as "30,000, more or less" was quite certainly an under-estimate. The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million."

  "...Sprey calculates that deaths inflicted to date as a direct result of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq could be, at best estimate, 183,000, with an upper 95 per cent confidence boundary of 511,000."

• A face and a name: civilian victims of insurgent groups in Iraq (Oct 2005)
  
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  Human Rights Watch report centered around insurgent groups' own justifications for their attacks on civilians, and an account of the impact they have on their victims.

• Report of the Secretary-General (07 Sept 2005)
  
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  Covers developments fom 7 June 2005 to 7 September 2005

• Medact 'Iraq Health Update' (26 July 2005)
  
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  Keywords: Healthcare Humanitarian situation

  Summary of health-related and general developments.

• Report of the Secretary-General (05 June 2005)
  
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  Covers the period from 7 March to 7 June 2005, including the formation of the Transitional National Assembly and its constitution-drafting committee.

• Call for an investigation into Iraqi war-related casualties (11 March 2005)
  
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  Statement calling for an investigation into Iraqi war-related casualties, signed by 24 public health experts in the UK, US, Australia, Canada, Spain and Italy

• Report of the Secretary-General (07 March 2005)
  
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  Keywords: US Mandate Secretary General Humanitarian situation UN 1546 Elections

  Covers 7 December 2004 to 7 March 2005, giving substantial attention to the January 2005 election.

• Report of the Secretary-General, 2004 September-December (08 Dec 2004)
  
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  Keywords: US Mandate Secretary General Humanitarian situation UN 1546 Fallujah Elections

  Covers events from 7 September to 8 December 2004. At this time, the main political issue was the violence in Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul, Samarra and other cities, while preparatory work towards the January 2005 elections was being undertaken.

• 'Lancet roundup and literature review' (11 Nov 2004)
  
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  Blog post by Daniel Davies of www.crookedtimber.org.

• Media Lens: '100,000 Iraq Civilian Deaths' (07 Nov 2004)
  
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  Analysis of the UK mainstream media coverage of the Lancet report.

• 'The Economist' article: Counting the casualties (04 Nov 2004)
  
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  Analysis of the statistical basis of the Lancet report (requires subscription).

• Report of the Secretary-General, 2004 June-September (03 Sept 2004)
  
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  First report from the UN Secretary General under resolution 1546. Covers events from June to early September 2004

• Comment by Lancet editor
  
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  The report was published in the Lancet along with a comment by the editor, Richard Horton.

• Monthly Humanitarian Updates on Iraq since April 2005
  
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• Monthly Reconstruction and Development Updates on Iraq since April 2005
  
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• New GoI/IMF/UNDP poverty study: 1 in 5 now live in poverty
  
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  Reports on a study by the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, in conjunction with the IMF and UNDP.

  It finds that the number of Iraqis living below the poverty line has increased since the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003. 1 in 5 now live in poverty.

  "Some two million Iraqi families live under the poverty line, as defined by international criteria, which is fixed at one dollar per day per person."

  "'The number of people requiring social assistance by our minister is dwarfed by the large number of people in need...actually only 171,000 famillies across the entire country receive social assistance,' compared to the two million needing it.

  "This paltry amount of aid, which runs between 40,000 to 50,000 dinars (30 to 35 dollars) a month, according to the famillies, will be increased by a new amendment to a social security law dating from 1980."

• RAND Report: Nation Building Hampered by Failure to Address Health Problems
  
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  The United States missed opportunities to help win the support of the public in Iraq and Afghanistan by failing to make health a bigger focus of reconstruction efforts after U.S.-led invasions of the nations, according to a RAND Corporation report titled "Securing Health: Lessons from Nation-Building Missions".

• UN monthly humanitarian updates
  
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  Brief monthly summaries of humanitarian work conducted by the UN agencies operating in Iraq.