Iraq Sanctions Economic
Sanctions on Iraq are the prohibition and prevention of goods and services and trade, connecting to or reaching Iraq from other parts of the world. The society issue involved here has to do with the human (or environmental or other) difficulties such as unattended medical problems (unable to get medicines and supplies), lack of food and safe drinking water (i.e., unable to obtain water treatment goods or services) and so on.
Top: Society: Issues: Economic: Sanctions: Iraq
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Barbarians at the Gates - The Iraqis are the latest in a long series of peoples dehumanised and destroyed by "Western civilisation", writes Edward Said.
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Without Medicine And Supplies, The Children Die - 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.
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Iraq Action Coalition - Campaigns against both the sanctions, and bombing of Iraq.
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Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq - Details of the society campaigning to lift the U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Includes information about the sanctions, the society, and their activities.
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International War Crimes Tribunal: US War Crimes against Iraq - Includes use of outlawed weapons; intentionally bombing schools, hospitals, mosques and churches; killing after a cease-fire; and starvation of citizens.
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Sanctions on Iraq - A comprehensive site on the effects of the embargo and action people can take.
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Iraqi children - 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.
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Life and Death in Iraq - Special Report from the Seattle Intelligencer on the people in Iraq and their hardships, impact of the sanctions, a historical perspective, and photos.
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Iraq Resource Information Site (IRIS) - Detailed collection of information and news relating to Iraq. Includes multimedia gallery, message board, and events list.
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