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2 million malnourished children in Iraq Dear All I've been meaning to make this correction for a very long time. My apologies for misleading folk earlier. In my earlier summary regarding the last S-G report on oil-for-food, I said there were no statistics regarding chronic/acute malnutrition among children, as there used to be. I chased UNICEF and got nowhere - they said some figures might be released soon. But in paragraph 71 it says, 'Roughly 5,000 metric tons of high-protein biscuits were distributed equitably to targeted malnourished children under five years of age (2.16 million) and pregnant/lactating women (550,000) during the period under review'. Of course you can download the whole report from http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/reports.html What this says is that in the last Phase there were over 2 million children in Iraq who the UN considered 'malnourished'. That doesn't mean 'chronically malnourished' or 'acutely malnourished'. We don't have a standard of comparison with past figures. But I think it is legitimate to say, 'There are over 2 million malnourished children in Iraq right now, according to the UN.' Cheers Mil Milan Rai Joint Coordinator, Voices in the Wilderness UK milanrai@btinternet.com 29 Gensing Road, St Leonards on Sea East Sussex UK TN38 0HE Phone/fax 0845 458 9571 local rate within UK Phone/fax 44 1424 428 792 from outside UK Pager 07623 746 462 Voices website http://viwuk.freeserve.co.uk -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk