Just a heads-up: on Wednesday, May 23 at 12:30 p.m. EST, following the UN Secretary General’s Noon Briefing in New York, Daniel Toole, UNICEF’s Director of Emergency Programs, will speak to the press about the tremendous effect the war is having on millions of Iraqi children.
The briefing will be broadcast on UN TV and streamed live on www.un.org/webcast.
UNICEF has been serving the children of Iraq since 1952, and is now seeking to ensure that the millions directly affected by the current conflict receive essential services including clean water and sanitation, immunization against potentially deadly diseases and the possibility of continuing their education.
You can read the full Media Alert here, and if you would like to support UNICEF's work in Iraq now, you can donate online here.