Women's Organizations
- Act Together
- Act together is a group of UK-based Iraqi and non-Iraqi women, formed in 2000 to campaign against the economic sanctions on Iraq. Their current focus is on the occupation and the support of independent grassroots women's initiatives in Iraq.
www.acttogether.org/index.htm - Women's Alliance for a Democratic Iraq (WAFDI)
- WAFDI is an international non-partisan and not-for-profit women rights organization dedicated to a free and democratic Iraq with full and equal individual rights for women.
www.wafdi.org - Iraqi Al-Amal Association
- Iraqi Al-Amal is a non-political, non-sectarian association of volunteers actively engaged in projects for the benefit and well-being of the Iraqi population regardless of race or political and religious belief. Founded in Kurdistan in 1992, the headquarter offices have been moved since to Baghdad.
www.iraqi-alamal.org - Kurdish Women Action Against Honour Killing
- Kurdish Women Action Against Honour Killing (KWAHK) is a network of Kurdish and non-Kurdish activists, lawyers and academic researchers. KWAHK aims to raise national and international awareness about the issue of violence against women in the Kurdish communities, in particular honour killing, both in Kurdistan and in the Diaspora.
www.kwahk.org - Asuda:
- ASUDA Organization for Combating Violence Against Women was founded in 2000 and registered in May 2001 in Sulaymaniyah with the Ministry of Humanitarian Assistance and Cooperation in Iraqi Kurdistan
www.asuda.org - The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq
- www.equalityiniraq.com/english.htm
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General Organizations
- INDICT
- INDICT is an organization based in the UK that seeks to bring leading members of the former Iraqi regime to justice in national courts or before an international tribunal.
www.indict.org.uk/index.php - The Iraq Foundation
- The Iraq Foundation is a non-profit, 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.
www.iraqfoundation.org - The Iraq Memory Foundation
- The Iraq Memory Foundation staff both in Baghdad and Washington are engaged in a long-term effort to provide Iraqi society and the world a view of the inner workings of the Ba'thist institutions of repression and social control that dominated all aspects of Iraqi life between 1968 and 2003.
www.iraqmemory.org/en/index.asp - Iraq Revenue Watch
- Open Society Institute (OSI) Chairman George Soros launched Iraq Revenue Watch (IRW) in May 2003. At that time, the goal of IRW was to ensure transparent international stewardship of Iraq's oil revenues while the country remained under occupation. Now that Iraq is once again independent, the goal of IRW is to monitor Iraq's oil industry and public finances, to ensure that they are managed with the highest standards of transparency and that the benefits of national oil wealth flow to the people of Iraq.
www.iraqrevenuewatch.org - Iraq Watch
- Iraq Watch is a comprehensive web site devoted to tracking mass destruction weapons in Iraq. In the wake of Saddam Hussein's ouster, the site is committed to monitoring efforts to account for these weapons. Iraq Watch details key Iraqi organizations and sites involved in weapons proliferation, lists their foreign suppliers, and provides access to U.N. and other documents that describe past and present activities in Iraq.
www.iraqwatch.org
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General Information
- Documents about Iraq
- http://www.paperlessarchives.com/iraq.html
- Grotian Moment: Saddam Hussein Trial Blog, Case Western University Law School
- Features key documents related to the Iraqi Special Tribunal, answers to frequently asked questions, and expert debate and public commentary on the major issues and developments related to the trials of Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi leaders.
www.law.case.edu/saddamtrial/index.asp - Iraq Media Guide
- www.mondotimes.com/1/world/iq
- Iraq News
- www.iraq.net
- UNIFEM Iraq Profile
- www.womenwarpeace.org/iraq/iraq.htm
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Articles
- Amnesty International Report
- "Iraq: Decades of suffering, Now women deserve better"
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140012005 - CODEPINK: Women for Peace and Global Exchange
- "Iraqi Women under Saddam"
www.alternatives-international.net/article170.html - FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights)
- "Iraq: an intolerable, forgotten, and unpunished repression"
www.fidh.org/magmoyen/rapport/2002/iq315a.pdf - Report by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Government
- Saddam Hussein: crimes and human rights abuses, 2 December 2002, p. 8.
www.news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/
uk_human_rights_dossier_on_iraq/pdf/iraq_human_rights.pdf - Global Security.org
- "A History of Women's Role in Iraq"
www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_women_hist.htm - Human Rights Watch
- "Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds, July 1993"
www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/index.htm - Physicians for Human Rights
- "Southern Iraq: Reports of Human Rights Abuses and Views on Justice, Reconstruction and Government, 18 September 2003"
www.phrusa.org/research/iraq/docs/iraqsurvey.pdf - Time Magazine
- "The Sum of Two Evils," Brian Bennett and Michael Weisskopf, Time Magazine, 25 May 2003
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030602-454453,00.html - US Department of State
- "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 1999: Iraq, 23 February 2000"
www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/410.htm
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