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	Iraq (Human Rights Watch, 29-1-2004)
		The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Iraq should be extended and broadened so that it expressly authorizes monitoring and reporting on current human rights concerns in the country; making recommendations to the Occupying Powers and Iraqi governing authorities; and monitoring the investigation and prosecution of abuses committed by the former government.
		Human Rights Watch has called for the establishment of a group of experts, under the auspices of the United Nations, to recommend changes to the statute to ensure that the tribunal to be established meets international standards.
		Human Rights Watch is also concerned about the prolonged detention without charge or due process of thousands of Iraqis since the beginning of the war.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2004/01/29/iraq7130.htm (1115 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Opinion \| A catalogue of violations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Human rights violations in Iraq are a prime example of the magnitude of the injustice dual standards have inflicted on the Iraqi people.
		The history of modern Iraq, from its establishment following World War II to the present day, is the story of a human catastrophe in which structural and functional imbalances have invariably bred deviant human rights behaviour among the rulers, and not infrequently among the ruled.
		Violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted on 20 November 1989).
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/702/op61.htm (1831 words)

	Human rights violations in Iraq
		Countless reports of human rights violations have emerged from Iraq, although the Iraqi government prohibits the establishment of independent human rights organizations within the Country and rarely permits outside human rights monitors inside.
		Human rights organizations have documented government approved executions, acts of torture, and rape for decades since Saddam Hussein came to power there in 1979.
		Two years earlier, two human rights orgainizations, the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues[?] and the Coalition for Justice in Iraq[?] released a joint report, accusing the Saddam Hussein regime of committing "massive and systematic" human rights violations, particularly against women.
	www.fastload.org /hu/Human_rights_violations_in_Iraq.html (750 words)

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		Human rights are the articulation of the need for justice, tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity in all of our activity.[1] Speaking of rights allows us to express the idea that all individuals are part of the scope of morality and justice.
		Unresolved human rights issues can serve as obstacles to peace negotiations.[22] This is because it is difficult for parties to move toward conflict transformation and forgiveness when memories of severe violence and atrocity are still primary in their minds.
		The Legacy of Human Rights Violation in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.
	www.beyondintractability.org /m/human_rights_violations.jsp (4772 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)

	News
		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)

	Human Rights First \|Human Rights & Post-war Iraq
		Among these violations were the violent attacks against the Kurds in the late 1980s, including use of chemical weapons, and the assaults against Shi’a in the South of Iraq in 1991, where villages were burned and thousands of civilians forcibly displaced.
		To ensure that those who flee Iraq to seek impunity for their crimes cannot disguise themselves as refugees, Human Rights First urges that a screening process be instituted for the refugee population in neighboring States.
		The Arab Charter on Human Rights (1994), adopted by the Council of the League of Arab States, specifically provides that, even in times of emergency, no derogations from the guarantees in the Charter relating to political asylum are permitted (Article 4).
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /iraq/iraq_04.htm (2488 words)

	DAWN - Opinion; 02 September, 2004
		Obviously, the same criterion must have been applied in Iraq, leading one to believe that human rights violations in that country are not isolated instances of aberration, as claimed by Rumsfeld, but in compliance with the official policy enunciated by the Bush administration.
		The Human Rights Watch report has indeed unmasked the faces of those who are behind the abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq, and yet claim to be defenders of human values.
		It is, however, the moral and legal responsibility of the Human Rights Commission, to ensure that the coalition powers fulfil their obligations under humanitarian law and bring the culprits to justice.
	www.dawn.com /2004/09/02/op.htm (5156 words)

	Informed Comment
		Iraq The Model I: The US military observed guerrillas in Beiji planting a roadside bomb and kept them under surveillance as they went to a house, then called down a bombing raid on the house.
		Iraq The Model III: One of the things the Sunni Arab and secular parties want investigated and cleared up before they drop their objections to the way the elections were conducted is the secret torture jails run by the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior.
		Iraq The Model IV: Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports [Ar.] that the Debaathification Committee in Iraq has begun pulling all works that praise the Baath regime in Iraq, which ruled 1968-2003, from the shelves of university libraries.
	www.juancole.com /2006/01/human-rights-violations-in-iraq-or.html (823 words)

	Human Rights Commission Planned For Iraq - Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Abbadi insisted that human rights violations did not take place only under the Baathist regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was ousted from power in the US-led invasion of March 2003.
		The chief of UNAMI’s human rights office in Iraq, Gianni Magazzeni, insisted that “full realisation of all human rights are important factors for stability in Iraq”.
		Magazzeni noted that post-war Iraq was the first Arab country to have set up a human rights ministry and said the ministry and the commission should be able to work together to stem abuses.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/unrole/2006/1018comm.htm (606 words)

	Human Rights violations in Iraq? Observe Venezuela... \| www.vcrisis.com
		Whatever the reasons for the disciplinary measure it is obvious that the army and the government of Hugo Chavez have failed, yet again, to investigate accordingly grave human rights abuses performed by men under their command.
		In Iraq’s case, which needs to be stressed is a country without institutional framework, the issue of abuses towards prisoners have reached No 10 and the White House.
		Human rights abuses in Iraq are grave but Venezuela’s are as grave or graver still.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200405070613 (1254 words)

	UN Commission on Human Rights - Report on Human Rights Situation in Iraq (Feb 95)
		Serving in the capacity of human rights monitors pursuant to paragraph 11 of Commission resolution 1994/74, the staff members visited the Islamic Republic of Iran from 15 to 25 August 1994, concentrating on the south-western province of Khuzestan in the region of the frontier with south-eastern Iraq.
		A second example of government policy seriously violating human rights, and one which affects the population as a whole, is that of the issuing, in 1994, of a series of decrees which constitute an astounding public institution of cruel and unusual punishments.
		The penalty for the act referred to in clause V of this Decree shall be amputation of the right hand from the wrist and, in the event of a repeated offence, amputation of the left foot from the ankle.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/commission/country51/56.htm (10839 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: British Report Accuses Saddam of Human Rights Abuses -- Dec. 2, 2002
		Straq unveiled the document, titled "Saddam Hussein: Crimes and Human Rights Abuses," at a meeting of the Atlantic Partnership, a group that supports warm relations between Britain and North America.
		"The human rights situation in Iraq or elsewhere should not be used selectively," the group said in a statement.
		Iraq has dismissed previous accounts of human rights abuses.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/iraq_12-02-02.html (727 words)

	Middle East Online
		Human rights group’s report says Government in Mideast use war on terror to justify abuses against citizens.
		LONDON - US-led troops have committed gross human rights violations in Iraq, Amnesty International said in a report which also took governments across the Middle East to task for using the "war on terror" to justify abuses against their own citizens.
		"The betrayal of human rights by governments was accompanied by increasingly horrific acts of terrorism as armed groups stooped to new levels of brutality," the London-based group said in its annual report published Wednesday, highlighting a number of televised beheadings last year in Iraq.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=13599 (626 words)

	News & Analysis: UN Special Representative calls for action on rights violations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		He was addressing the opening session of the first national human rights workshop in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which brought together lawyers and human rights activists from different areas of Iraq with experts from the international community to discuss justice for past human rights violations in Iraq.
		Human rights groups say huge numbers of people disappeared under the previous regime, and their bodies are only now being found in mass graves.
		He said the UN human rights system and NGOs had documented the suffering of the people - the political repression, the ethnic cleansing and widespread discrimination for more than a decade.
	electroniciraq.net /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/14/931 (706 words)

	USATODAY.com - Iraq accused of human rights abuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		LONDON (AP) — The British government accused Iraq of systematic human rights abuses on Monday, charging in a detailed dossier that Saddam Hussein used torture, rape and terror to oppress his people.
		He said the dossier, entitled "Saddam Hussein: crimes and human rights abuses," was the most detailed the British government had compiled on Iraq and included intelligence material, firsthand accounts of Iraqi victims of torture and oppression and reports by private organizations.
		Political dissidents are tortured, women lack basic human rights and are routinely raped by security personnel while in custody and political prisoners are kept in inhumane and degrading conditions, the report said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-12-02-britain-iraq_x.htm (505 words)

	A question of human rights
		In the background paper distributed to the media, several references were made to Amnesty International’s reports published over the years on the human rights situation in Iraq.
		The US and other Western governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International reports of widespread human rights violations in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and ignored Amnesty International’s campaign on behalf of the thousands of unarmed Kurdish civilians killed in the 1988 attacks on Halabja.
		The sanctions on Iraq have left the country impoverished, isolated and socially disrupted, they resulted in widespread illness and death of innocent civilians, and they have tightened the grip of a repressive political regime" (1).
	mondediplo.com /2002/10/03rights (492 words)

	Sanctions' Effects on Human Rights Violations
		Sanctions enacted for other purposes: In addition to the improvement of human rights circumstances, the sanctions were simultaneously motivated by the aforementioned economic and military concerns, as well as by the desires to halt the invasion of Kuwait and to destabilize Saddam Hussein's government.
		Effectiveness of Sanctions: The majority of sanctions against Iraq continue to be maintained, though international enthusiasm for and participation in the sanctions has waned dramatically, primarily due to the decrease in quality of life since the imposition of the sanctions.
		Andreas Mavrommatis, "Question of the Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in any part of the World: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iraq" U.N. Document E/CN.4/2001/42, Commision on Human Rights, United Nations Economic and Social Council, 16 January 2001, 9.
	www.wm.edu /so/monitor/fall2001/gallagher.htm (6052 words)

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		On 19 September, the New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced in a new report the arbitrary arrest and abusive treatment of detainees held at the General Intelligence Department’s (GID) central detention facility in Amman, Jordan.
		In another development, the National Organisation for Human rights in Syria (NOHR) told IRIN that the trial of Kamal Labwani, a medical doctor and human rights activist who was arrested in November 2005 upon his return from the United States, has been postponed to 29 September.
		"The difficulties of human rights defenders in the occupied Palestinian territory are compounded because of the failure of the Palestinian Authority to respect human rights and the rule of law in the areas under its control," Jilani said.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=55701 (1242 words)

	The Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries: Human Rights Organizations
		[ Arab Countries ] Arab Association for Human Rights: The Arab Association for Human Rights was founded in 1988 to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel and to further the domestic implementation of international human rights principles.
		The center contributes to the spread of legal culture by means of lectures, seminars workshops, and by conducting research on human rights, democracy building, rule of law, and independence of the judiciary.
		Its intention is to contribute to the prevention of human rights violations and to the promotion and protection of human rights.
	www.arabhumanrights.org /en/hrorgs (5158 words)

	CNN.com - U.N.: Iraqi rights violated by troops - Jun 4, 2004
		But the 45-page document stressed that "the removal of Saddam Hussein must be counted a major contribution to human rights in Iraq" and said the coalition has made strides in planting human rights during its occupation.
		The report, prepared by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, focused on ways to combat human rights violations in Iraq, but it also noted the deterioration of economic, health, educational and security conditions for people caught in the crossfire of war and insurgency.
		It said a human rights ombudsman should be designated soon and the coalition should allow regular inspection of detention facilities.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/06/04/un.humanrights/index.html (967 words)

	UN Commission Condemns "Extremely Grave" Human Rights Violations in Iraq
		Geneva - The UN Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution April 18 condemning "systematic, widespread and extremely grave violations" of human rights and international law by the government of Iraq.
		The resolution extends the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Iraq for a further year, and requires next year's session of the Commission to continue to review the human rights situation in the country.
		Mindful that Iraq is a party to the international Covenants on Human Rights, to other international human rights instruments and to the Geneva Conventions, of 12 August 1949, on the protection of war victims,
	www.usembassy.it /file2001_04/alia/a1041908.htm (1119 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Report airs rights perils in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq — A new report on human rights violations in Iraq documents how devastatingly easy it is to die here — and how increasingly difficult it is to live.
		In northern Iraq, for instance, "burning" was listed as the cause of death for half of the 112 women killed in Irbil and two-thirds of the 163 killed in Sulaimaniyah in the first six months of 2006.
		"The inability of state institutions to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice, and the resulting recourse of ordinary citizens to seek private retributive justice, risk polarizing Iraqi society to a previously unknown degree," the report said.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,650193038,00.html (594 words)

	Iran says Britain committing human rights violations in Iraq - Printer Friendly Page - Iran (General) - Iran Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		“At a time when, due to the occupation of Iraq by foreign forces, the people of this country are facing daily explosions, insecurity, kidnapping, assassinations, and the discovery of bodies of innocent people, their gathering was only natural.
		But, the imprudent, inhumane, and unmerciful conduct against such people by the occupying British forces which believe that their mission is to establish peace and tranquillity in Iraq is inconceivable and illogical”, the statement said.
		“Such an ugly and inhumane action by a country that claims to respect human rights and sees itself as a frontrunner in the struggle to advance human rights is unwarranted and discouraging”, it added.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=7212 (231 words)

	Iraqanalysis.org » Info»Human Rights
		Armed groups fighting against the MNF and the Iraqi government were responsible for grave human rights abuses, including the deliberate killing of thousands of civilians in bomb and other attacks, hostage-taking and torture.
		Report by Human Rights Watch claiming that the U.S.-led coalition forces failed to secure the relevant sites at the time of the overthrow of the former government, and that important evidence about the human rights abuses of the former Iraqi regime therefore has gone missing.
		Recent extensive report on detention and torture in Iraq, which focusses specifically on Amnesty's "concerns about human rights abuses for which the US-led MNF is directly responsible and those which are increasingly being committed by Iraqi security forces".
	www.iraqanalysis.org /info/124 (3938 words)

	UN Warns of Human Rights Violations in Iraq
		The United Nations warned of human rights violations by all sides in war-torn Iraq and expressed concern at the increasing number of people held on terrorist-related charges.
		In its bi-monthly human rights report covering the period from September 1 to October 31, UNAMI said that "large parts of Iraq continue to experience a general breakdown of law and order", adding that "hundreds of civilians have been killed and wounded as a result of terrorist attacks, targeted assassinations and extra-judicial execution-style killings."
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	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/1114-03.htm (468 words)

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