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		Thus Iraq devoted 37.9% of its oil revenue to military expenditure in 1975, 75% in 1980, 77% in 1985, and 89% in 1989.
		Iraq's unilateral abolition of the state of Kuwait and its annexation as a province of Iraq was accompanied by crimes of war documented by Kuwaitis and Allied forces.
		Human rights abuses by the state are practiced daily in Iraq, against all sectors of the population indiscriminately.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /hr.html (1196 words)

	UNDP-POGAR: Iraq Portal - Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Human Rights Impact of economic Sanctions on Iraq: Background Paper prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights impact of economic sanctions on Iraq.
		Iraq Reconstruction and Humanitarian Relief: Report of the ongoing efforts of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Governing Council, United nations and the NGOs to improve Iraqi's infrastructure, health and education and government's accountability.
		United Nations: Commission on Human Rights Resolution 1991/74: Situation of Human Rights in Iraq: Commission on Human Rights resolution calling on Iraq to respect its human rights obligations and to cooperate with the Commission on Human Rights particularly on the cases of disappearances.
	iraq.pogar.org /hr.asp (1964 words)

	Human Rights First \| Human Rights & Post-war Iraq
		Human Rights First is calling on the international community to establish a comprehensive plan for holding those most responsible criminally accountable for their actions.
		Human Rights First is calling on all parties to the conflict to adhere to these standards in the treatment of those who are detained.
		Human Rights First is challenging this new policy which targets the very people who are fleeing from persecution in these countries, solely on the basis of their nationality.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /iraq/war_in_iraq.htm (727 words)

	Iraq
		Human rights abuses remain difficult to document because of the Government's efforts to conceal the facts, including its prohibition on the establishment of independent human rights organizations, its persistent refusal to grant visits to human rights monitors, and its continued restrictions designed to prevent dissent.
		Human rights organizations and opposition groups continued to receive reports of women who suffered from severe psychological trauma after being raped while in custody.
		The report strongly criticized the "systematic, widespread, and extremely grave violations of human rights" and of international humanitarian law by the Government, which it stated resulted in "all-pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad-based discrimination and widespread terror." The report called on the Government to fulfill its obligations under international human rights treaties.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/nea/8257.htm (13071 words)

	A/51/496 Situation of Human Rights in Iraq
		For example, one witness who had written articles criticizing the situation in Iraq in publications appearing in the foreign press testified that his elderly father living in Baghdad was arrested for two days and was threatened with the idea that his son would be sent to him in pieces.
		With respect to movement between the central part of Iraq and the northern territories from which the Government withdrew its administration in October 1991, the Government recently announced that the extraordinary restrictions on movement were lifted as of 10 September 1996.
		Three customary principles of human rights protection are incorporated in the Martens clause: (a) that the right of parties to choose the means and methods of warfare, i.e.
	www.un.org /documents/ga/docs/51/plenary/a51-496.htm (11957 words)

	The Human Rights Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is a communique by the Geneva-based Libyan League for Human Rights apropos of the release of 130 political prisoners.
		Such a Constitution is the only way to effectively guarantee the cessation of human rights violations in Libya, safeguard public freedoms and prevent people from being incarcerated for the mere exercise of their basic human rights, such as the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.
		The report on Iraq is particularly interesting both because it does not cover human rights violations by the occupying force and by how general it is in detailing violations and abscribing responsibility for it.
	www.humanrightsblog.org (927 words)

	Iraq: People come first - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Long-term stability and human rights protection in Iraq require the rule of law and transparent, accountable systems of government that are based on respect for human rights and recognition of the particular needs of women as well as ethnic and religious groups without discrimination.
		Amnesty International’s efforts to draw attention to the human rights of all the people of Iraq over the decades have frequently been greeted by indifference or hostility from government leaders who put their own political interests first.
		This Briefing, published in the wake of the 2003 war, shows that human rights must not be subject to political, economic and military interests if the long suffering of Iraq’s people is to end.
	web.amnesty.org /pages/irq-index-eng (517 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Middle East and Northern Africa : Iraq
		Human Rights Watch condemns in the strongest terms yesterday’s kidnapping and killing of Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, a defense counsel in the Dujail case before the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal.
		Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by recent reports that provisions of the constitution currently being drafted may erode some of the rights Iraqi women have worked so hard to establish, and in fact may violate international law on women’s human rights.
		Iraq’s permanent constitution should not erode the rights of women, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the chairman of the constitutional drafting committee.
	www.hrw.org /mideast/iraq.php (1105 words)

	Iraq: Protection of human rights vital during transition - news.amnesty - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The post-handover period is a crucial one for the future of Iraq in regard to respect and promotion of human rights and international humanitarian law.
		Human rights monitors should also be deployed to supervise all places of detention and make public their recommendations to the detaining authorities.
		The rights of women must be guaranteed with effective measures to combat torture, rape, domestic violence and murder as well as a complete review of discriminatory laws and practices.
	news.amnesty.org /mav/index/ENGMDE140332004 (775 words)

	On Human Rights in Iraq
		The doctors went on strike, protesting against the violation of their right, against the insults they have been subjected to and against the destruction of the hospitals properties and facilities, due to which other patients are now deprived of intensive medical care.
		The Human Rights Committee considers such a saying to be a clear invitation for policemen to kill before making sure of the reasons, and further considers it to be an indicator of the legal and humanitarian state of the officials there.
		The Lawyers Union Human Rights Investigation Committee concluded that the investigators at the Wolf Brigade were full of hatred and prior intentions even before starting the investigations, and that they were driven by political and sectarian motives and trying to cover their inability to enforce security.
	www.brusselstribunal.org /survey111105.htm (10684 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Iraq invites human rights inspection
		The government of Iraq has invited a United Nations human rights expert to visit the country in what will be the first such mission in 10 years.
		Since his appointment in December 1999, Mr Mavrommatis has made several requests to be allowed to visit Iraq and, according to a statement issued by the UN office, has always expressed a willingness to establish a constructive dialogue on human rights with the Iraqi Government.
		In 1992 the Iraqi Government banned further missions after the former Iraq expert, Max van der Stoel of the Netherlands, issued a damning report of human rights abuses he found there and criticised the brutal measures employed by the Iraqi leadership to stifle political opposition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1788000/1788013.stm (345 words)

	Kurdish Human Rights Project
		Kurdish Human Rights Project is an independent, non-political human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere.
		Of particular importance is the caseload of applications to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and submissions to UN mechanisms on behalf of Kurdish and non-Kurdish applicants, brought by KHRP with the assistance of its partners on the ground.
		Due to its expertise on the human rights situation in Iraq and its position as an independent, non-political organisation, KHRP was inundated with requests for information and assistance prior to, during and after the US-led war against Iraq in March 2003.
	www.khrp.org (1551 words)

	International Law: US abuses human rights in Iraq, useless compensation system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to a new report, the US military in Iraq is arrogant and cruel when dealing with Iraqis seeking compensation for wrongful death, injuries and property destruction.
		The report, authored by Iraq Occupation Watch and The National Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Iraq (NADHRI), slams US military practice in Iraq since March 1, 2003 and charges that the US compensation system in Iraq is useless.
		According to Human Rights Watch, the US military has received nearly 5,400 claims as of mid-September, 4,148 of which had been adjudicated and 1,874 denied.
	electroniciraq.net /news/1347.shtml (1162 words)

	Iraq: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rather, the Iraqi people continue to suffer human rights abuses that violate international law and contribute to a climate of impunity in which torture is more likely to occur.
		Urge Iraqi authorities to end their incommunicado detention, allow them access to lawyers and family members, and release them unless they are charged with a recognizable offense and given a fair trial in accordance with international standards.
		Iraq: Amnesty International condemns the killing of a trial lawyer and urges greater protection for the defence team
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/iraq/index.do (391 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| UN condemns Iraq on human rights
		Iraq has been condemned by the United Nations' top human rights body for conducting a campaign of "all pervasive repression and widespread terror".
		Noting "with dismay" that there had been no improvement in the human rights situation in Iraq, the 53-member commission passed the EU proposal to condemn Iraq's human rights record.
		He said it turned a blind eye to the "aggressive...economic siege" Iraq had been suffering since the UN imposed sanctions on the country after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1940050.stm (256 words)

	Human rights in Iraq & Kurdistan devoted to the disappearances of Iraqis & Arabs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Human rights in Iraq & Kurdistan devoted to the disappearances of Iraqis & Arabs
		The state of human rights in Iraq is among the worst in the world.
		Thus, enforced disappearances are among the most egregious abuses of human rights in Iraq: per capita, the number of disappeared in Iraq is the highest in the world.
	www.mafqud.org (343 words)

	Human Rights and Iraq War
		David Rieff, a champion of human rights causes, argued in the New York Times Magazine of August 8, 1999 that the human rights movement is in trouble, despite its triumph in Kosovo.
		Such early human rights reporting got a boost in the "yellow press" because the barbarities it recorded were well suited to the sensational headlines and accounts of violence which might titillate readers and sell papers.
		Still the development of international human rights conventions under the auspices of the United Nations codified the concept of international human rights and provided a measuring stick by which governments could be judged.
	www.worldlymind.org /birth1.htm (12564 words)

	Human rights situation in post-Saddam Iraq at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There are allegations that the use of torture in Iraq did not end with the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
		While such treatment violates the U.S. and Britain's official policies on combat and occupation, and despite numerous complaints by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, it took a year before the first US soldier was court marshaled for their actions concerning abuse of Iraqis.
		The reforms are expected to increase safeguards for prisoners' rights, to ensure each prisoner receives a copy of their internment order, and has their charges explained to them within 72 hours.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Human_rights_situation_in_post-Saddam_Iraq.html (928 words)

	Review of Human Rights in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Every single human right is regularly and systematically abused in Iraq, with only one slight exception, that of freedom of religion.
		Despite the fact that the Baghdad regime is (in the words of a high-ranking State Department official) "possibly the worst violator of human rights anywhere in the world today," the U.S. government did notoriously little on this score before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
		More generally, the establishment of Middle East Watch, one of the five Watch Committees on Human Rights, confirms that Arab countries are increasingly being viewed through the same humanitarian prism as the rest of the world; this marks a very healthy trend.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/522 (280 words)

	War in Iraq
		to distain law on such a fundamental human right as protection against torture is catastrophic.
		If it succeeds, it undermines everything the human rights movement has stood for and threatens all it has achieved.
		During April and May of 2003, two PHR delegates were stationed in Kuwait City and sent reports from the field covering health and human rights abuses resulting from the war in Iraq.
	www.phrusa.org /research/iraq (634 words)

	IRAG - Index
		As a result of what we have feared, the Iraqi Human Rights Group is extremely concerned about many reports just received indicate that many Iraqi civilians have been injured during the war that is now taking place.
		The Iraqi Human Rights Group calls upon the UN Human Rights Committee, the American Human Rights Watch group, and Amnesty International to investigate these reports of civilians’ casualties as the Iraqi Human Rights Group has itself been prevented from going to Iraq.
		They committed genocide in Iraq by grossly violating and abusing human rights and causing serious bodily and mental harm to millions of Iraqi people.
	www.irag.org.uk /eindex.php (485 words)

	Amnesty asks for human rights guarantee in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The organization has asked for the new Constitution in Iraq to ban executions, and the draft is "completely silent about death penalty", an IA spokesman said to the British news network BBC.
		However, the death penalty was reestablished In Iraq in August 2004 under the administration of the former Iraqi prime minister, Iyad Allawi, and now Saddam Hussein himself may face his execution if he is declared guilty of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against human kind.
		Women rights, southern Iraq provinces' federalism (where the largest Shiite population is concentrated), and the national oil wealth distribution, are some of the issues which do not have agreements yet.
	www.quepasa.com /english/news/war/human.rights.Iraq/359359.html (629 words)

	Iraq: The Human Rights Consequences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Iraq: Human rights proceedings welcomed but concern over handling of Saddam Hussein's court appearance
		Amnesty International welcomed the start of a process to determine responsibility for grave human rights crimes in Iraq, but also expressed concern at the handling of the court appearance of Saddam Hussein and 11 senior members of the former president’s government.
		Human rights and the economic reconstruction process in Iraq
	www.amnesty.org.uk /action/iraq (540 words)

	1998/65 - Situation of human rights in Iraq
		Mindful that Iraq is a party to the International Covenants on Human Rights and to other international human rights instruments, and to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 on the protection of victims of war,
		Welcomes the report on the situation of human rights in Iraq submitted by the Special Rapporteur (E/CN.4/1998/67) and the observations on the general situation, including in the northern region, and the conclusions and recommendations contained therein, and notes his dismay that there has been no improvement in the situation of human rights in the country;
		(a) To abide by its freely undertaken obligations under international human rights treaties and international humanitarian law and respect and ensure the rights of all individuals, irrespective of their origin, ethnicity, gender or religion, within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction;
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/documentation/commission/1998-65.htm (798 words)

	Scoop: Opinion: Islam, Democracy, & Human Rights In Iraq
		Religious leaders are the only established, indigenous authorities in Iraq today; in fact, U.S. invasion/occupation troops have been relying on those religious leaders to help re-establish law, order, and public services (trash collection, electricity, public transportation, etc.).
		Islamic civil rights have certainly had their ups and their downs, depending on the relative strength of moderates and conservatives.
		Anthony Ravlich Considers New Zealand's Role In The New UN Human Rights Council - Countries with a more balanced approach to human rights at the international level, such as New Zealand, should be used in peace-maker roles on the new United Nations Human Rights Council.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0306/S00086.htm (2215 words)

	IRAQ: Human Rights Precarious - Amnesty
		Based on a series of visits to Iraq over the past year, as well as media accounts, the report, 'Iraq: One Year On', concludes that coalition forces have fallen far short of their promise to improve human rights for all Iraqis.
		More than 10,000 are estimated to have been killed as a direct result of the military intervention, either during the war or during the occupation, according to Amnesty, which noted that U.S. authorities have said they lack the capacity to track civilian casualties.
		Coalition forces have uncovered scores of mass graves in many parts of Iraq since the invasion, and helped the painstaking process of identifying the remains of those who were buried there.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=22940 (972 words)

	The Iraq Foundation Website
		, non-partisan, non-governmental organization working for democracy and human rights in Iraq, and for a better international understanding of Iraq's potential as a contributor to political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.
		Iraq Foundation team distributed 70 blankets to Dina Institute for handicapped Children in Baghdad
		A project to spread the understanding of human rights principles among the people of Iraq
	www.iraqfoundation.org (236 words)

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