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1. 1. More than 2 million Afghan children targeted by UN-backed polio campaign - AfghanMania.com - Afghanistan Portal / Afghanistan news from Kabul, Afghanistan Map

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   Published on: 2/5/2006   Last Visited: 9/2/2006

   "Polio immunization is an essential way of safeguarding children's health, and preventing this crippling disease from affecting their lives," UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) country representative Bernt Aasen said, urging families in 11 targeted provinces to look out for vaccination teams and make their children available.
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   Polio is not just a health issue - it has implications for economic and social development as well," Mr. Aasen said.

2. 2. Scoop: UN Workers Under Attack In Southern Sudan

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   Last Visited: 3/1/2004

   Bernt Aasen, UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, said "this direct, deliberate and sustained attack on aid workers is outrageous and intolerable. Attacks on humanitarian workers in conflict situations are war crimes."
   
   He called on the Sudanese Government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) to identify and prosecute the perpetrators of the attack.

3. 3. DEHAI NEWS MAILING LIST ARCHIVE: [dehai-news] (Reuters): INTERVIEW-Sudan returnees face humanitarian, culture crisis

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   Published on: 6/1/2004   Last Visited: 6/3/2004

   Bernt Aasen, U.N. deputy humanitarian coordinator in the region, said it was crucial to manage the raised expectations of a homecoming for many of the four million people who fled two decades of bitter violence in which two million people died.
   
   "People returning will face major challenges and hardship. It's still an area that is very much, in terms of aid, based on survival more than development," Aasen said.
   
   The U.N.'s Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) expects about 800,000 Sudanese to try to return to their villages this year. Rebels in the south say the number could total three million in the longer term.
   
   "It would be difficult to find a village with the roofs that were there 15 years ago still in place," Aasen said.
   
   About two-thirds of the population already in areas under the control of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in southern Sudan are without an infrastructure to provide basic services, including water, food, housing and schools, he said.
   
   "There are very few roads and many of the roads have landmines, particularly the areas around the urban centres that have been controlled by the government of Sudan," he said.
   
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   Aasen said the security situation also remains tenuous.
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   We don't know what the policies will be in terms of schooling of children," Aasen said.
   
   To prevent a humanitarian crisis, the OLS and its 2,000-some workers in southern Sudan will try to establish water and food points along the routes that returnees, travelling mostly by foot, will take. The aim is to keep them moving and avoid building up new refugee camps along the way.
   
   Aasen said the U.N. will require some $800 million in funds to cover its efforts in southern Sudan and in the western region of Darfur, where the U.N. has called the fallout from a separate conflict the world's worst humanitarian disaster.