Getting the fundamentals right: Rising to the humanitarian challenge in Iraq, Oxfam's new joint report with NCCI, a network of aid organisations working in Iraq, argues that the violence in Iraq is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis, with eight million Iraqis in need of emergency aid.

Although the appalling security situation is the biggest problem facing most ordinary Iraqis, the government of Iraq and other influential governments should do more to meet basic needs for water, sanitation, food and shelter.