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Other Analyses of the Sanctions - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum Other Analyses of the Sanctions
Including Recommendations, Essays and Other Articles
Sanctions Against Iraq | Oil-for-Food Program | Towards Lifting the Sanctions
Wider Discussion on Sanctions Reform | Studies and Recommendations | Criticism of the Sanctions
Civilian Flights | Statements on Iraq Sanctions | UN Security Council: Disagreement and Debates | Oil in Iraq
2002
Iraq Sanctions: Humanitarian Implications and Options for the Future (August 6, 2002)
A comprehensive report on UN sanctions against Iraq, issued by Global Policy Forum and eleven NGO partners on the twelfth anniversary of the original sanction resolution in the Security Council. The report discusses sharp differences in the Council over the sanctions, issues in humanitarian law, and the battle for the future of Iraq’s oil riches.
2001
A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions (December 3, 2001)
(The Nation) critically analyzes the sanctions against Iraq and urges an urgent change in policy. Shortcomings of the “smart sanctions” plan should be highlighted and steps to ease civilian sanctions should be taken.
2000
Targeted Sanctions: A Brief Overview of Options (November 3, 2000)
A statement prepared by the NGO Working Group on Iraq proposes a "viable system to monitor and restrict the importing of weapons and military-related technology", as well as targeted financial sanctions as options to better target sanctions against Saddam Hussein.Oil for Food: The True Story (October 2000)
A quarter of Iraqi oil and petroleum revenue goes not to food or medicine, but to compensation payments that Iraq will be making for decades to come. Alain Gresh of Le Monde Diplomatique writes of the most severe war reparations since World War I, and the US-dominated UN agency that administers the summary justice.Oil Prices in the Sanctions Balance (March 9, 2000)
A critical article from New World Communications stating that if Iraq sanctions come to an end it will be due to Western concern over oil prices, and not over the plight of Iraqi people.Between Iraq and a Hard Place: A Critique of the British Government's Narrative on UN Economic Sanctions
Posted by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, this page gives introduction and conclusion of the paper written by Dr Eric Herring from University of Bristol's Department of Politics.
The "Lift the Sanctions" Resolution that Doesn't (January 11, 2000)
Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies offers an in depth analysis of the December 17th Security Council Resolution on Iraq.Chronology of US Policy Towards Iraq 2000
Posted by the United States Information Service (USIS), this chronology includes many references to sanctions. But with a marked US government perspective.1999
UNICEF vs. the US State Department on Iraqi Children (September 1999)
Bert Sacks of the Seattle Community Network examines how the US government has sought to undercut a UNICEF report on the effect of sanctions on Iraqi child mortality rates.Sanctions Discussed in the 6th Committee.
Discussion during the October 16-20 meeting posted by Mennonite Central Committee.Security Council Resolution Regarding Iraq (January 30, 1999)
Notes by the President of the Security Council in January 1999, Amb. Celso Amorim of Brazil.Increase in Number of Spare Parts Contracts for Iraq's Oil Industry (January 21,1999)
Some spare part contracts for Iraq's oil industry that have been released from on hold. More are expected in order to increase the production under oil-for-food program.Sanctions Have an Impact on All of Us (January 5, 1999)
Comments by Denis Halliday, former United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, shortly after he resigned his post in protest over the sanctions' devastating impact on the Iraqi people.1998
Secretary-General's Mission to Iraq (February 20-24, 1998)
Links to UN documents and summaries of Kofi Annan's involvement in the resolution of the February Iraq crisis.Memorandum of Understanding between the UN and the Republic of Iraq (February 23, 1998)
Legalism and Realism in the Gulf (Spring 1998)
Article by Sheila Carapico discussing the situation in Iraq. (Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP))The US-Iraq Crisis (Spring 1998)
Article by The Editors of Middle East Report. Posted by the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).1997
Back to Square One: The U.S. Needs a Whole New Strategy for Iraq (December, 1997)
Institute for Policy Studies Scholar Phyllis Bennis critically considers US policy.1996
Iraqi Sanctions, Human Rights & Humanitarian Law (Summer 1996)
Article by Roger Normand. Posted by the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).The Health Conditions of the Population In Iraq Since the Gulf Crisis (March, 1996)
Report published by the World Health Organization.
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