Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Compassion fatigue leaves quake victims out in the cold: "Compassion fatigue leaves quake victims out in the cold
� UN to ask for billions of dollars at donors' meeting
� Cash needed immediately to stave off crisis
Randeep Ramesh, south Asia correspondent
Monday November 14, 2005
The Guardian
The international community needs to spend 'several billions of dollars in immediate cash' to stave off a humanitarian crisis in Pakistan-ruled Kashmir, according to the chairman of an international donor conference to be held this week.
Kemal Dervis, the head of the UN Development Programme, acknowledged that the relief effort had struggled to raise the required $550m (�314m) from its instant appeal and that the $130m pledged so far was 'clearly insufficient'."
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