No place to call home

Children stand in the compound of a relative's house in Irbil, Iraq, Jan. 19 after their families fled from Baghdad. Tens of thousands of people have left the violence-ridden Iraqi capital. One in every eight Iraqis--some 3 million people--are displaced. About 1.6 million are displaced within the country; the rest have fled to other countries, and between 2,000 and 3,000 people are leaving the country every day. In the January issue of Forced Migration Review, the coordinator of the Iraq unit of the U.N. refugee agency Andrew Harper writes, "Iraq is hemorrhaging with no end in sight." For the full article, "Iraq's neglected humanitarian crisis," visit: www.fmreview.org.

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