UNICEF’s annual Humanitarian Action Report released in February appeals for funds to meet the needs of children and women affected by emergencies around the world – including those plagued by poverty and recurrent conflict, like this child in Chad. Calling on donors to help address 39 specific crises around the world, the UNICEF today Humanitarian Action Report outlines the organization’s funding requirements for emergency work in 2008. The report details financial needs beyond regular country programme budgets. The appeal for more than $850 million worldwide targets the largest allocations for Pakistan, Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “From Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Iraq, Zimbabwe and Sudan, children and women continue to bear the brunt of conflict, displacement and deteriorating conditions,” UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman writes in a foreword to the report.