Press centre
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This page provides journalists with up-to-date briefing notes from the UNICEF office in Baghdad.
Updates, fact sheets (answering questions such as how many children live in Iraq, what percentage is malnourished etc.); press releases; video B-roll from May 2003; reports, including the 1999 Iraq child mortality report and recent field reports for donors; photo galleries; and how to support UNICEF information. The list of UNICEF press officers and spokespersons is also on-line.
Iraq's land mass spreads over 436,052 square miles, and is bordered by Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Kuwait, and Iran.
Latest press releases
- Funeral service held for UNICEF staff member killed in Baghdad
- UNICEF mourns loss of staff member in Baghdad blast
- Iraq: UNICEF repairs pipeline damaged by explosion
- Routine immunization of children re-established across Iraq
- UNICEF wary of post-war child trafficking in Iraq
- Japan becomes UNICEF’s #1 donor on Iraq relief
- Iraq: Cleaning up neglected, damaged water system, clearing away garbage
- Iraq: Restore public health system for malnourished children
- Bellamy to Baghdad to see Iraqi children, thank UNICEF staff
- UNICEF: Iraq survey finds child health sliding
- Iraq: Unsafe water making children unhealthy
- UNICEF urges all parties to protect Iraqi children
- Bellamy to Baghdad to see Iraqi children, thank UNICEF staff
- UNICEF: Iraq survey finds child health sliding
- Iraq: Unsafe water making children unhealthy
- UNICEF urges all parties to protect Iraqi children
Previous press releases
- War Is Over, But the Battle to Protect Iraq’s Children Is Far From Won
- With chlorine supplies dwindling, children face harmful water-borne diseases
- UNICEF lauds Iraqi "commonsense" push to return to school
- UNICEF warns of worsening situation for children in Iraq
- UNICEF seeks $166 million to help Iraq's children
- The situation of Iraq's children
- UNICEF racing to bolster 400,000 malnourished children in Iraq
- UNICEF: 4 million children vaccinated against polio in Iraq
- UNICEF and Partners push ahead on polio, measles drive
UNICEF photos from Iraq are available to qualified publications. Write to us at photo@unicef.org
Related documents:
Tragedy in Iraq
Fact sheets


















