Humanitarian Action for Children 2011 - Unicef

SUDAN© UNICEF/NYHQ2006-0559/NooraniChildren and women line up to collect water, in theAbu Shouk camp, near El Fasher, capital of NorthDarfur State. Some 4.3 million Sudanese remaindisplaced by years of conflict.Page 51.YEMEN© UNICEF/NYHQ2009-1734/BrekkeA woman bathes her son outside their tent inthe Al-Mazrak camp in Hajja. Acute emergenciesand chronic underdevelopment, characterized byshortages of food, water, sanitation and health care,have displaced hundreds of thousands of people.Page 52.LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2639/LeMoyneA girl stands in her Port-au-Prince home, whichwas heavily damaged by the 12 January 2010earthquake in Haiti. Natural disasters characterizemajor emergencies in the region, which also hasgreat disparities between rich and poor.Page 53.COLOMBIA© UNICEF/NYHQ2009-1773/MarkiszCarlitos, 8, stands in front of his home, which sits ona toxic landfill in a poor Medellín neighbourhood.Decades of armed conflict, drug-related violenceand recent intense flooding have displaced millionsand deepened social inequalities.Page 56.GUATEMALA© UNICEF/NYHQ2007-2754/VersianiA girl walks on a dirt road in Salquil Grande Village, ElQuiché Department. In 2010, irregular rains and unusuallyhigh temperatures cut food production, leadingto high levels of undernutrition among children.Page 57.HAITI© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2128/DorminoSisters are treated for cholera in Artibonite Department.The cholera epidemic that began in October2010 struck a blow to efforts to recover from the 12January earthquake that killed more than 222,000people and displaced more than 2 million.Page 58.WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1160/GangaleWomen bring their children for nutrition screeningsin Nokou, Chad. Cyclical drought, severe pressureon limited natural resources and outdated farmingpractices have crippled food production in theSahel region.Page 59.BURKINA FASO© UNICEF Burkina Faso/2009/TarpilgaA girl who was displaced by floods in 2009 eatsready-to-eat therapeutic food in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso’s capital. Entrenched poverty, floodingand epidemics continue to challenge the country,despite a recent decline in global acute malnutritionrates.Page 62.CAMEROON© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2322/BouvetMartine Daoundala sits outside her home with herdaughter in the village of Ziver. Children and womenin the eastern and northern regions of Cameroonstruggle to share limited access to health and otherservices with a fluctuating refugee population.Page 63.CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC© UNICEF Central African Republic/2009/de HommelChildren stand in the town of Boura. Deep poverty,resurgent conflict and the flow of refugees fromneighbouring countries, have left the country’schildren vulnerable to disease and exploitation.Page 64.CHAD© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1152/AsselinA boy sits in a transit and orientation centre forchildren formerly associated with armed forces orgroups in N’Djamena. Such recruitment remains acritical problem in eastern Chad.Page 65.CONGO© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2803/AsselinA girl carries a boy in Djambala, where UNICEFparticipated in polio vaccination campaigns in late2010 during the country’s deadly polio outbreak.The epidemic was centred around the port city ofPointe-Noire.Page 66.Côte d’Ivoire© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2469/KamberA girl carries a bowl in a market in Adjamé, a poorneighbourhood in the city of Abidjan. Ongoing conflict,including violently disputed national elections,have exposed children and women to exploitativelabour and sexual violence.Page 67.DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO© UNICEF/NYHQ2008-1328/AsselinAdolescent survivors of sexual violence wait tobe seen at a hospital in Goma. By late 2010, anestimated 1.7 million Congolese were still displacedby conflict, and sexual violence was continuing atcatastrophic rates.Page 68.NIGER© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1593/HoltzA girl drinks a mixture of millet, milk and sugar ina village in Maradi Department. Inadequate rainfall,outdated farming methods and demographic pressureare causing food insecurity that threatens halfthe country’s population.Page 69.72 2011 UNICEF Humanitarian Action FOR CHILDREN | www.unicef.org/hac2011