Human Rights in Saddam Hussein's Iraq
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US Government
* Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's Disinformation and Propaganda 1990-2003
whitehouse.gov
This White House report, released January 21, 2003, details the Iraqi regime's use of propaganda and disinformation to gain international support for the regime and to hide development of its weapons of mass destruction programs.
* 2002 State Department Report on Human Rights Practices in Iraq
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A report by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, released March 31, 2003.
* Iraq: A Population Silenced
state.gov
A report by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, released December 2002.
* Focus on: Human Rights in Saddam's Iraq
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Excerpts from the 2001 State Department Human Rights Report on Iraq. This report provides a glimpse of the crimes committed by the Iraqi regime against its citizens.
* Iraq: From Fear to Freedom
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Illuminates the threats posed to the peace and security of the world by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. This publication examines — in a direct, factual, and comprehensive way — Saddam Hussein's relentless efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction; the sustained campaign of harassment, intimidation, arbitrary arrest, torture, and murder wrought by Saddam against his own people; Saddam's support of global terrorism and the corruption of the regime he directs; and Iraq's decades-long campaign of deception and defiance of the will of the international community. A final section addresses the United States' desire to see a future Iraq that is democratic, unified, and at peace with its neighbors.
* Crimes Against Humanity
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A report by the U.S. Department of State, describing Saddam's brutality against the Iraqi people.
British Government
* Saddam Hussein: Crimes & Human Rights Abuses
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A report by the British Government's Foreign & Commonwealth Office on the human cost of Saddam's policies, published 2 December 2002.
United Nations
* Report of the Special Rapporteur, Andreas Mavrommatis, on the Situation of Human Rights in Iraq
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Issued by the United Nations, 15 March 2002
* Situation of Human Rights in Iraq (14 October 1999)
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Interim report prepared by Max van der Stoel, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Iraq, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/14 of 23 April 1999 and Economic and Social Council decision 1999/229 of 27 July 1999
* Situation of Human Rights in Iraq
usinfo.state.gov
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Max van der Stoel, in accordance with Commission resolution 1998/65, U.N. Commission on Human Rights, February 26, 1999
Non-governmental organizations
* World Report 2003: Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
hrw.org
Issued by Human Rights Watch
* Iraq: Systematic Torture of Political Prisoners
web.amnesty.org\IRAQ
Issued by Amnesty International on August 15, 2001. |
