{"id":53353,"date":"2016-02-17T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/iraq-requires-international-aid\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:02:27","slug":"iraq-requires-international-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/iraq-requires-international-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq requires international aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The humanitarian situation in Iraq is worsening and nearly a third of the country is affected, said the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Jan Kubis, at a Security Council meeting on Tuesday (16) that was made public this Wednesday (17) by <em>UN Radio<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today not only 3.3 million internally displaced persons, but altogether some 10 million Iraqis, almost one third of the population, urgently require some form of humanitarian assistance,&rdquo; Kubis said addressing the Council. He warned that the government of Iraq and the Regional Government of Kurdistan, an autonomous region in North Iraq, are interested in catering to the needy, but the requirements far outstrip their ability to provide assistance. &ldquo;Without the necessary support, today&#8217;s internally displaced persons will become tomorrow&#8217;s refugees,&rdquo; he admonished.<\/p>\n<p>Kubis acknowledged that progress has been made in some areas of the country. Approximately 500,000 previously shelterless people have returned to their homes, and 900,000 more are expected to return this year. <\/p>\n<p>However, the achivements are under constant threat from the lack of safety, the fast-moving, fast-changing Islamic State attack patterns, and the local government&rsquo;s inability to act without foreign support. Hence, he called on aid from the international community, and noted that in January, the UN made a plea for USD 861 million to address Iraqis&rsquo; needs. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-181519\">Eskinder Debebe\/United Nations<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN mission chief in the Arab country says humanitarian needs exceed the government\u2019s ability to cater to its population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":181519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs"},"wps_subtitle":"The UN mission chief in the Arab country says humanitarian needs exceed the government\u2019s ability to cater to its population.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}