The United Nations agency for children, UNICEF, has launched a new appeal amidst what it calls a worsening crisis for Iraq’s youth. UNICEF says most Iraqi children have suffered trauma since the U.S. invasion. Only 30 percent have access to safe drinking water.

UNICEF Special Representative to Iraq Roger Wright: “It’s obviously going to be a troubled generation. As the children are growing up, if they’ve not been directly exposed to the violence, they’ve seen it and have witnessed it, and are suffering psychosocially from the experience.”