Society, Issues, Economic, Sanctions, Iraq
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 - The Iraqis are the latest in a long series of peoples dehumanised and destroyed by "Western civilisation", writes Edward Said.
- Details of the society campaigning to lift the U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Includes information about the sanctions, the society, and their activities.
- Johanna Berrigan, a Catholic Worker lay person out of Philadelphia, is used to working with poor people, but she wasn't prepared for a "death row for infants" that she found in Baghdad hospitals.
- Includes schedule and reports on protests against Iraq sanctions, war, and US occupation there, reports by Ramsey Clark to the UN, and list of related books. From the IAC, a left-wing pacifist group.
- According to a report by prominent child psychologist Professor Magne Raundalem for UNICEF this is 'the most traumatised child population on earth'.
- Includes use of outlawed weapons; intentionally bombing schools, hospitals, mosques and churches; killing after a cease-fire; and starvation of citizens.
- From the Institute for Public Accuracy. A timeline of the Iraq crisis, from August, 1990 to November, 1998. Briefer version also available.
- Special Report from the Seattle Intelligencer on the people in Iraq and their hardships, impact of the sanctions, a historical perspective, and photos.
- A comprehensive site on the effects of the embargo and action people can take.
- Campaigns against both the sanctions, and bombing of Iraq.
- Detailed collection of information and news relating to Iraq. Includes multimedia gallery, message board, and events list.
- A faith-based nationwide campaign to demand the lifting of the non-military sanctions against Iraq.
- Iraq medical staff must decide who will live and who will die because sanctions prevent ordinary medical supplies from reaching the war torn country. AP article in the Hartford Courant.
- Dedicated to raising awareness about Iraq above and voicing the plight of the Iraqi people.
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