Iraq is helped and hurt by UN

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United Nations sanctions have led to great suffering for ordinary Iraqis. The country's economy has declined, and basic needs for food, medicine, water and sanitation are not being met. However, Unicef points out that a survey undertaken in Mar 1998 indicates that malnutrition is stabilizing and that the oil-for-food programme, implemented under United Nations resolution 986, is ensuring that an already very serious situation does not worsen. Furthermore, Unicef is encouraging the Iraqi government's community childcare units.

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Did Allied bombs do this?

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Cases of childhood cancer have reached extremely high levels in the southern provinces of Iraq, where the last battles took place in the 1991 Gulf war. Parents of children with cancer believe that the soil around their homes was contaminated with allied shells and rockets containing depleted uranium. At the paediatric hospital in Basra, Iraq, there was around one cancer patient a week before the Gulf war, but the hospital now receives an average of 40 a week, many of whom will die because of lack of proper medicines.

Cancer in children, Childhood cancer

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Misery and hardship: the darker side of UN sanctions

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United Nations sanctions are having a severe impact on the lives of many ordinary Iraqis. It is proving impossible to obtain medicines to treat seriously ill children, for example, and water and sanitation systems are close to breaking down because electrical power stations are producing at less than 40% of capacity. It is now time to find some alternative to sanctions, according to UN Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday.

Economic aspects

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