On Children and Conditions in Iraq
"The maintenance of food supply and consumption as well as the close monitoring of the nutritional and health status of the Iraqi population over the next few months are absolutely necessary to prevent full-scale and major human disasters developing in the country."
- U.N. Secretary-General Javier de Cuellar, shortly after the Gulf War
THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ
by Felicity Arbuthnot
Click here for tragic report by UK journalist Felicity Arbuthnot, who has travelled to Iraq with the Chicago-based group "Voices in the Wilderness" (1460 West Carmen Ave., Chicago, IL 60640, tel: 773-784-8065, fax: 773-784-8837.)
GULF WAR'S "BLACK SOUVENIR"
by UK journalist Felicity Arbuthnot
Click here for article on radioactive fallout in Iraq and the rapid rise in cancer rates and birth deformities.
A DISEASE OF THE WORLD SYSTEM
by Ahmed Ben Bella
First President of Algeria
Click here for excerpt from a speech against sanctions and blockades worldwide, especially southern countries. January 17, 1996.
IRAQ IN 1980 AND TODAY
Click here for statements by
Lee Loe and Ann Bragdon, of Fellowship of Reconciliation, at a Houston
gathering at the Rothko Chapel, in remembrance of Iraqi children dying
at the rate of one every ten minutes.
EYEWITNESS REPORT
Voices in the Wilderness
Voices in the Wilderness is a Chicago-based organization whose sole purpose is to advocate lifting the sanctions against Iraq. Click here for reports from three VitW volunteers from: MARYLAND - Ellen Barfield went with the 10th VitW delegation, which spent January 3-18, 1998 in Iraq; OHIO - Rick McDowell, an actor and puppeteer, is from Akron; WISCONSIN - Erik Gustafson, Gulf War army veteran, was in Iraq for eight days in June of 1997 with a VitW delegation.
U.N. OFFICIALS PAINT GRIM PICTURE IN IRAQ
Rick McDowell, a peace activist from Ohio, has visited Iraq four times in the past 15 months with teams from "Voices in the Wilderness," which sends groups of five or six people for two-week visits and to deliver medicines to the Iraqi people. He led two back-to-back groups in December and January, visiting Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Arbil, and Amara.
Click here for article from The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs March 1998.
ALL OUR CHILDREN
Click here for short story from Houston Peace News November 1997.
HOUSTONIANS CARE ABOUT IRAQ'S CHILDREN
Click here for article on activities and contact information for Houston coalition groups.
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