"Iraq is haemorrhaging. The humanitarian crisis
which the international community had feared in
2003 is now unfolding. The massive
displacement has emerged quietly and without
fanfare but the numbers affected are in excess of
what many agencies had predicted in 2003.


Since the February 2006 Samarra bombings
UNHCR, as Cluster Coordinator for displaced
groups inside Iraq1, estimates some 425,000
Iraqis to have been recently displaced2. In
addition, some two to three thousand Iraqis are
leaving per day3 via neighbouring countries as
the extent of the tragedy becomes obvious.


UNHCR estimates that there are at least 1.6
million Iraqis internally displaced with at least
another 1.6 – 1.8 million4 in neighbouring states.
Beyond the mass exodus, which has already occurred, population
movements show no sign of abating. The needs
of IDPs, returnees, refugees and their host
communities are dramatic and to a large extent
unmet."

 http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=SUBSITES&id=45631dec2

"Despite the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian
situation inside Iraq and in neighbouring
countries donor support has declined
significantly in recent years. From a total budget
of USD 29 million in 2006, UNHCR only
received USD 11 million in fresh contributions.

The Office has therefore been obliged to operate
within the funds available which are hardly
enough to cover the pressing basic needs. The
lack of support to humanitarian operations has
required UNHCR to suspend a number of
critical activities in the last quarter of 2006. This
has directly increased the vulnerability and
hardship of female headed households, the
elderly, sick and other vulnerable groups.

Political and financial support to UNHCR and
other humanitarian agencies is urgently required.
While the international community has provided
billions of dollars in funding to recovery and
development programmes, many of which have
not been implemented due to security concerns,
humanitarian programmes inside Iraq and in
neighbouring states remain neglected. A
renewed focus towards the humanitarian crisis
impacting Iraq and neighbouring states is
overdue. UNHCR is grateful to the following
donors who have supported the Iraq Operations
in 2006.

Donor Amount
in USD
UNDG Iraq Trust fund (Korea) 1,972,000
United Kingdom 265,905
Spain (ECA) 5,055
Switzerland 393,701
Japan 500,000
USA 7,967,996
Total Fresh Contributions 11,104,657
Carry-Over from 2005 8,859,501
Total 19,964,158"

*So, the UK Govt. has donated enough money to pay for a 3-bedroom semi in shitty Tottenham:

 http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=277663&agentid=03904

*Meanwhile over at Halliburton, the CEO is sitting on enough cash to solve the crisis single-handedly:

"In the last 12 months, the total number of U.S. service members killed in Iraq almost doubled as Halliburton's stock doubled. Halliburton's stock rose from $33 per share in September 2004 to $66 yesterday while U.S. deaths in Iraq increased from 1,061 to almost 1900.

Three graphs at this link starkly depict the dramatically similar rise of Halliburton's stock price, revenue and U.S. soldiers killed during the past thirty months of war in Iraq.

Halliburton's CEO also enjoyed an incredible personal gain from Iraq and the commensurate rise in gasoline prices. A HalliburtonWatch analysis reveals that CEO David Lesar's stock holdings in Halliburton increased by a stunning $78 million since the Iraq invasion."

 http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/stock_troop2.html

"Monday, 8 January 2007
GENEVA – The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, today launched a $60 million appeal to fund its work over the next 12 months for hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people affected by the conflict in Iraq."

 http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/iraq?page=news&id=45a243a54