Humanitarian Action for Children 2011 - Unicef

Photo CaptionsCOVERBÉNIN© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2203/AsselinIn October 2010 in Benin, a boy avoids floodwatersas he returns from school in Mono Department.Adramatic increase in natural disasters has strainedlocal capacities, leaving children and womenincreasingly vulnerable.Fostering resilience, protectingchildren: UNICEF in humanitarianactioNPAKISTAN© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1797/RamonedaChildren displaced by massive flooding attend atemporary learning centre at a UNICEF-supportedcamp in the city of Sukkur. Early Warning, EarlyAction systems linking global, national and localresponses are crucial to mitigating human suffering.Page viii.Global Support for UNICEFEmergency Response OperationsHAITI© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1299/RamonedaA Haitian girl carries water in a Port-au-Prince campfor people displaced by the 12 January earthquake.The devastating Haiti quake and the Pakistan floodemergency were only two of more than 200 emergenciesUNICEF responds to every year.Page 13.ASIA-PACIFIC© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1628/RamonedaA girl stands near a tent camp for people displacedby flooding in Sukkur City, Sindh Province (Pakistan).In 2010, monsoon rains affected 20 million peoplein Pakistan alone. In 2009, 89 per cent of victims ofglobal natural disasters were in Asia.Page 17.AFGHANISTAN© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-0790/HoltA young woman holds her daughter outside theirhome in Helmand Province. Neither the woman norany of her 17 siblings attend school because thereare none in the area. Five million Afghan children,mostly girls, do not have access to education.Page 20.DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’SREPUBLIC OF KOREA© UNICEF/NYHQ2004-0536/HornerA woman cleans poultry at a UNICEF-supported waterand sanitation cistern in North Hwanghae Province.Recurrent natural disasters and decreased internationalfood aid have caused severe food shortages; 37per cent of the population is dependent on food aid.Page 21.MYANMAR© UNICEF/NYHQ2008-0352/DeanWorkers rebuild a cyclone-damaged home in YangonPauk in the south-western Irrawaddy Division.Cyclone Nargis, which affected millions of peoplein 2008, and Cyclone Giri, which affected 260,000 in2010, have left thousands of people homeless.Page 22.PAKISTAN© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1636/RamonedaDisplaced children cook over an open fire near acamp in Sukkur City, Sindh Province. Flooding in2010 from heavy monsoon rains affected 20 millionpeople, an immense emergency in a country alsocoping with conflict and widespread poverty.Page 23.PHILIPPINES© UNICEF Philippines/2010/PalasiA boy participates in recreational activities at aday-care centre in Isabela Province, one of severalregions affected by typhoons this year. Filipinosare subject to ongoing cycles of natural disastersand conflict.Page 24.SRI LANKA© UNICEF/2007-2642/HavivA girl queues with her mother at a nutrition clinic inVaharai Village, Batticaloa District. The country continuesto recover from 30 years of war, as refugeesand the internally displaced return home and socialservices are slowly rebuilt.Page 25.CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAND THE COMMONWEALTH OFINDEPENDENT STATES© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1249/VolpeZulhumar Amanbaev kisses her son, Abdulmutalib,in their home in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan. Naturaldisasters in Tajikistan and the political crisis inKyrgyzstan have displaced hundreds of thou sandsand increased health risks for children.Page 27.KYRGYZSTAN© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1249/VolpeBrothers stand in the ruins of their fire-gutted homein the southern city of Jalal-Abad. Ethnic tensionsremain high since the June 2010 out break ofviolence, exacerbating food and other shortages inCentral Asia’s second-poorest country.Page 30.70 2011 UNICEF Humanitarian Action FOR CHILDREN | www.unicef.org/hac2011