Women fighting to stem disaster in Iraq
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Humanitarian relief agency CARE International is encountering significant difficulties as it seeks to bring medical supplies to cancer patients in Iraq. Its employees feel that their work is doing very little to ease the overall situation, which remains critical. They attribute Iraq's problems to United Nations sanctions, which they believe are hurting only ordinary people, rather than the Iraqi government. They feel that a whole generation is in danger of being lost in Iraq as people lose contact with the outside world and even lose their literacy.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Khalil is four years old. Thanks to your help, he may live to see five
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The 1991 Gulf War led to the contamination of soil in Iraq, which in turn has boosted levels of childhood cancers. In many cases, children suffering from cancer have not been treated adequately because the drugs and equipment required for their treatment do not enter Iraq because of United Nations sanctions. It appears that some of the children suffering from cancer played with pieces of rockets and shells they found near their homes, and their parents also report strange fumes after the bombing.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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