Disasters and Emergencies

In disaster or emergency situations, children are very vulnerable to illness and trauma and require special care and attention.

Of the world's estimated 27 million refugees and 30 million displaced people, 80 per cent are women and children. Almost 2 billion people were affected by disasters from 1990 to 1999. Disasters disproportionately affect the poor. More than 90 per cent of disaster-related deaths occur in developing countries.

Some 9 million children worldwide have been killed, injured, orphaned or separated from their parents by conflicts in the past decade.