BRUSSELLS TRIBUNAL

Women prisoners have been subjected to torture by electrocution, beatings, and rape by the investigators during interrogation. They had also been raped by the police and by the officers escorting them during the transfer to the women's prison in Baghdad.

5.3 million Children in Iraq still deprived of many rights

by UNICEF on 20-11-2012

�UNICEF calls on all stakeholders - in government, civil society, the private sector and the international community - to urgently invest in these children to respect their dignity and give them an equal chance to become healthy, productive young citizens of the new Iraq,�

CHILDREN CHILD RIGHTS EDUCATION HUMAN RIGHTS IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - CHILDREN OCCUPATION POVERTY VIOLENCE

The Political Trial of a Caring Man and the End of Justice in America

by John Pilger on 07-11-2012

On 26 February 2003, one month before the invasion, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a prominent cancer specialist in Syracuse, New York, was arrested by federal agents and interrogated about the charity he had founded, Help the Needy. Dr. Dhafir was one of many Americans, Muslims and non-Muslims, who for 13 years had raised money for food and medicines for sick and starving Iraqis who were the victims of sanctions

CHILDREN CHILD RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - INTERNATIONAL LAW IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - SANCTIONS IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - CHILDREN