Re: White Man turns Iraki women into prostitutes, liberates them from oppressive Hija
first things first- the war was on an idiotic premise and should not have started, and none of this would have happened. rest of teh stuff is all manifestations of this wrong war
Secondly. with the sheer number of refugees the stress on infrastructures is high and the host countries are stretching themselves thin to provide services. although i dont understand why they are not allowing refugees to work..
Lastly and most importantly now..since we cant go back and change point #1, the world ..all of it ..needs to do more, its not my view, its UNHCR
*BBC NEWS | Middle East | World 'ignoring Iraqi refugees'
**The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says there has been an “abject denial” around the world of the humanitarian impact of invading Iraq.
The UN faces an enormous task in helping countries such as Jordan and Syria cope with the huge influx of Iraqi refugees, a spokesman said. **
He said the international community had to step in to help address their food, health and education needs.
Syria says it is home to 1.2m Iraqi refugees, with up to 800,000 in Jordan.
**Damascus has repeatedly called for help to deal with the problem. **
UNHCR spokesman Peter Kessler said: "There has been an abject denial of the impact, the humanitarian impact, of the war, the huge displacement within Iraq of up to 1.9 million people who are homeless because of the war, and those people who are homeless and never got back to the homes after Saddam Hussein was overthrown
Many of the refugees need considerable support, and about a quarter of them are children who need education.
Many need food and healthcare, some need counselling because of the violence they have experienced or witnessed, while others need jobs.
“There’s a need for governments to come in and address the health, the education, all the needs,” Mr Kessler said.
**"Food aid needs as well are becoming vital because the population is becoming further and further impoverished since they cannot work. **
“So clearly in every area, there’s a need to support what the main host governments are doing and then to gird ourselves for what could be, if the war is prolonged, an increasing movement further westwards.”
Displaced inside Iraq
On top of that, almost two million more people are displaced inside Iraq - people who have fled their homes to escape the violence.
That number, too, is steadily growing, the UN says, with some provinces feeling overwhelmed and attempting to close their boundaries to refugees from other areas.
Many Sunni Arab and Shia people have been forced to flee from mixed areas to districts where their respective communities are in the majority.
A number of Arab Iraqis have moved to the autonomous Kurdish area in the north, where the security problems are less severe.
Most of the people killed in Iraq’s violence are men.
Their deaths leave households headed by women who struggle to survive the loss of the main breadwinner, says the BBC’s Jill McGivering.
The public distribution system within Iraq is no longer providing a safety net for these people in the way it used to.
All these factors encourage the flow of people into other countries*
and here is another
*BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN warns of Iraq refugee disaster
UN warns of Iraq refugee disaster
The flow of people being forced to leave their homes by violence in Iraq has become a humanitarian disaster, the United Nations refugee chief has said.
Antonio Guterres said there were almost four million displaced people inside Iraq or in neighbouring countries.
He said the international community had been “overwhelmed” by the problem, and needed to do much more to help.
About 1.8 million have left their homes within Iraq, with two million in Syria, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran.
According to figures collated by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, some 640,000 out of Iraq’s population of 26 million fled their homes in the past year.
Speaking in Amman, Jordan, Mr Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, praised Jordan and Syria for accepting large numbers of Iraqis.
“The sacrifices made by these countries are remarkable and the international community needs to assume full responsibility in supporting them,” he said.
“They are having huge strains in their infrastructure… we need to help them cope with this massive challenge.”
Many refugees live in conditions of acute poverty: in Syria, almost a third of Iraqi refugee children do not go to school.
“When you have almost four million people displaced inside the country or in countries around… we are facing a humanitarian disaster,” he said.
**“This is the biggest movement of displaced people in the Middle East since the Palestinian crisis in 1948,” **Mr Guterres said, referring to the movement of Palestinians after the establishment of Israel.
Mr Guterres’ comments come after aid agencies voiced their concerns about the situation earlier this year.
The UNHCR has also appealed for $60m (£30.8m, 45m euros) in emergency aid, and plans to hold a donor conference in Geneva in April. *