Julien Barnes-Dacey, Chronicle Foreign Service
Friday, March 21, 2008
“People are finding themselves in extreme situations and at the worst end we’re seeing child labor, early marriage and survival sex,” U.N. spokeswoman Sybella Wilkes said. “This is something that these families would never have resorted to in Iraq. They’re facing drastic measures in order to keep some semblance of quality of life.”
The United Nations estimates that more than 2 million Iraqis have fled their homeland, with more than 700,000 and 1.2 million pouring into neighboring Jordan and Syria, respectively. In January, the U.N. refugee agency appealed for $261 million for programs to “support the most vulnerable of the uprooted inside and outside Iraq.”
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