The United Nations and Human Rights in Iraq
Title | The United Nations and Human Rights in Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Tahar Boumedra |
Publisher | New Generation Publishing |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2013-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781909740648 |
Tahar Boumedra was Chief of the Human Rights Office of United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), and adviser to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on Camp Ashraf affairs from 2009 until 2012. He was the Regional Director of Penal Reform International (PRI) for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), based in Amman, Jordan. He was working with the MENA governments to introduce human rights based reforms in the penal and prison systems in the region. In November 2008, he was offered the position of Chief of UNAMI Human Rights Office who also represents the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR) in Iraq.
Renewing the United Nations Mandate for Iraq
Title | Renewing the United Nations Mandate for Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
The Extension of the United Nations Mandate for Iraq
Title | The Extension of the United Nations Mandate for Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Electronic government information |
ISBN |
Human Rights in the 'War on Terror'
Title | Human Rights in the 'War on Terror' PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wilson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2005-10-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780521853194 |
This book reviews the war on terror since 9/11 from a human rights perspective.
Genocide in Iraq
Title | Genocide in Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Abdul-Haq al-Ani |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2012-10-12 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 098533536X |
Imposing sanctions on Iraq was one of the most heinous of crimes committed in the 20th century. Yet it has received little attention in the Anglo-American world. Despite the calamitous destruction resulting from the sanctions, no serious attempts by legal professionals, academics or philosophers have been undertaken to address the full scope of the immorality and illegality of such a criminal and unprecedented mass punishment. Genocide in Iraq offers a comprehensive coverage of Iraq’s politics, its building, its destruction through aggression and sanctions, and an analysis of the legality of these sanctions from the point of view of international laws and human rights laws. It presents a detailed policy analysis indicating how, under Ba’ath rule, Iraq had risen to become-be fore 12 years of total sanctions were globally enforced-the most progressive and developed Arab nation in the Middle East. It then contrasts that rising nation to the devastated remains left in the aftermath of sanctions, which nonetheless was yet to endure, in 2003, the full force of the American “shock and awe” invasion. The book explains why, in modern times, imperialist powers felt it was necessary to occupy Baghdad. It also puts forward the uniqueness of Iraq as at the heart of both Sunni and Shi’a theology, arguing it was this very centrality of Iraq, which far outweighs the significance of Arabia in socio-economic, religious and geostrategic dimensions, that at the same time makes Iraq a target. It details the building of Iraq by the Ba’ath regime, part of which was done with remarkable speed, putting to rest the argument that other countries in the area were developed at a similar pace. It also details the devastation of Iraq by 2003 after 12 years of sanctions-a devastation so dreadful that by the UN’s own accounting, some 500,000 child deaths were due to it; a devastation so pervasive and overwhelming that two of the UN’s own key administrators of the sanctions program, Dennis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, resigned in protest.
The Present Situation of Human Rights in Iraq
Title | The Present Situation of Human Rights in Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Bertrand Ramcharan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 2005-08-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780756749439 |
The situation of human rights in Iraq has been the subject of concern in the UN Comm. on Human Rights for a number of years. The fall of Hussein removed a Gov't. that preyed on the Iraqi people & committed systematic & criminal violations of human rights. Following the occup. of Iraq by Coalition forces there have been violations of human rights committed by Coalition soldiers. Chapters: The Political Context; Mil./Security Situation incl. Acts of Terrorism; Protection of Civilians; Treat. of Persons During Arrest, Detention & Release from Detention; Displacement; Situation of Women, & of Children; Civil & Political Rights; Transitional Justice; Econ., Social & Cultural Rights; Oversight & Accountability; & Human Rights Legislation & Institutions.
Wars on Terrorism and Iraq
Title | Wars on Terrorism and Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas George Weiss |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Human rights |
ISBN | 0415700620 |
Wars on Terrorism and Iraq provides a timely and critical analysis of the impact of the wars on terrorism and Iraq on human rights particularly internationally, as well as related tensions in U.S. foreign policy.