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| | World Tribunal on Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The project will endorse and support the efforts to bring national authorities and warmakers to national courts (like the complaints filed in various state courts under the doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction) and to international courts (like the International Criminal Court in the Hague). | | | Criticized as a "kangaroo court" by supporters of the war, it receives less coverage in the United States than in the Middle East and Europe. | | | Copenhagen, March 2004 - Public hearing on the legality of war, legality of putting Iraq's public enterprises and resources on sale, legality of keeping over 20,000 people under arrest in camps and prisons in the absence of any legal procedure. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tribunal_on_Iraq
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| | World Tribunal on Iraq 2003 - 2005: Turkey |
| | The Security Council agreed in 2003 to the continuation of payments by the UN Compensation Commission even though it had earlier agreed to discontinue the entertainment of claims. | | | The failure of the Council to make a humanitarian, ethical and legal difference is much more monumental than is commonly known. | | | The dock of the court room for Iraq has to have more than one chair! |
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| | US Network to Broadcast World Tribunal on Iraq |
| | The Istanbul session of the WTI will summarize and present further testimony on the illegality and criminal violations in the U.S. pretexts for and conduct of this war. | | | The summons was signed by leading international figures, including international legal scholar Richard Falk and former Assistant UN Secretary General Dennis Halliday. | | | If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. |
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http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/3489/US_Network_to_Broadcast_World_Tribunal_on_Iraq
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| | World tribunal on Iraq condemns US, Britain |
| | The tribunal, the purpose of which was to document the case against the war, did not consider the argument in favour of the US-led intervention in Iraq, and had no judicial status. | | | It includes about 200 NGOs as well as a number of prominent intellectuals such as the linguist Noam Chomsky and international law professor Richard Falk of the United States. | | | Ibrahim spoke of the damage inflicted by the war and the occupation on the women of Iraq, with a proliferation of prostitution rings and the near-total exclusion of women from public life. |
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http://www.namibian.com.na/2005/June/world/05BF1BB2F1.html
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| | Voices on Iraq: World Tribunal Convening -- Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) |
| | She said today: "Official institutions of international law are not able to take any meaningful action because of the legal impunity that the United States enjoys. | | | He also will provide a brief update about the situation on the ground. | | | Halliday is a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations and, like Von Sponeck, headed the UN "oil-for-food" program until resigning in protest over the continued sanctions on Iraq. |
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http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1075
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| | World Tribunal on Iraq |
| | This tribunal shall render a decision on the issues presented to it which will be widely distributed throughout the world for the benefit of individuals and groups struggling for peace and justice. | | | This will be a record of wrongs, violations and crimes as well as suffering, resistance and silenced voices. | | | This will be a call to conscience and a call to act to preserve our futures. |
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http://www.worldtribunal.org/main.htm
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| | The World Tribunal on Iraq, Rome Session |
| | That we as peoples of the world must act to reclaim for humanity the values of solidarity and justice is clear. | | | Underpinning the Rome session is the conviction that people as concerned social actors retain the right and the duty to establish the truths upon which social judgement on matters relating to peace, justice and human well being may be reached, and to demand that the institutions of power so act. | | | As part of the World Tribunal on Iraq initiative, the Rome Session hopes to contribute to such a reclaiming of Peoples’ Law. |
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http://www.retedeimovimenti.it/azioni/wti/wti-eng.htm
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| | Culminating Session Of World Tribunal On Iraq |
| | Halliday said, ''The United Nations member states listened mutely and swallowed, some painfully, the false arguments of Iraqi capacity to threaten not only its neighbors, none of whom appeared to share this fear, and the physical threats to Britain and the United States. | | | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. | | | The United Nations failed to protect and safeguard the children and people of Iraq before and after the 2003 invasion.'' |
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http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=49321
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| | Democratic Underground - World Tribunal on Iraq: " ...in particular their reporter Judith Miller, |
| | Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC. | | | And, isn't it interesting how they characterize her role in Bu$h's illegal war of aggression on Iraq. | | | Not surprisingly, at the press conference after the tribunal, jury chairperson Arundathi Roy said, “If there is one thing that has come out clearly in the last few days, it is not that the corporate media supports the global corporate project; it is the global corporate project.” |
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4028517
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| | The World Tribunal on Iraq |
| | International Criminal Court, lack jurisdiction and enforcement power. | | | The World Tribunal on Iraq is one important effort trying to address the failure of the US to guarantee a minimal standard of human-rights for the inhabitants of the country which we'er currently occupying. | | | The political costs are still unseen but will anyone be held accountable for the war crimes committed during the military campaign, or the crimes committed by the occupying forces? |
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=1426
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| | Free Press : World tribunal on Iraq: media held guilty of deception |
| | The media will not talk about the illegal American weapons.” | | | All studies conducted on mainstream media show dominance by government policies, and wartime coverage of TV news in the UK was generally sympathetic to the government’s case..” | | | Fernando Suarez, who lost his son Jesus during the invasion of Iraq when he is said to have stepped on an illegal U.S. cluster bomb, also testified at the tribunal. |
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http://www.freepress.net/news/6727
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| | Hoffmania!: The World Tribunal on Iraq |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The World Tribunal on Iraq: | | | The US media can be silent on this, but the rest of the world is watching. | | | Post a comment on "The World Tribunal on Iraq" |
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http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2005/06/the_world_tribu.html
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Tribunal in Iraq targets Hussein |
| | The tribunal will base its law on the principles of the Geneva Conventions, which govern international rules of war, as well as other human rights cases. | | | Dicker said the new law had been drafted in "a highly secretive way," without consultation with international lawyers. | | | Lawyers who have researched Hussein's government for years warned yesterday that Iraq's judges were unprepared to try war crimes suspects in hearings that might involve hundreds of witnesses and millions of documents. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2003/12/11/tribunal_in_iraq_targets_hussein
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| | Democracy Now! World Tribunal on Iraq Condemns U.S. and Britain, Recognizes Right of Iraqis to Resist Occupation |
| | A 17-member Jury of Conscience at the Tribunal heard testimonies from a panel of advocates and witnesses who came from across the world, including from Iraq, the United States and the United Kingdom. | | | The tribunal investigated various issues on Iraq including the legality of the war, the role of the United Nations, war crimes and the role of the media, as well as the destruction of the cultural sites and the environment. | | | The Istanbul Tribunal consisted of three days of hearings investigating various issues related to the war on Iraq, such as the legality of the war, the role of the United Nations, war crimes and the role of the media, as well as the destruction of the cultural sites and the environment. |
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/1335230
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| | World Tribunal on Iraq |
| | Dennis Halliday a former International Civil Servant of rare integrity who had resigned on the issues of sanctions claiming that it amounted to an illegal declaration of war on the civilian population. | | | After the administration of the United States had taken care of the African-American voters and others through the Diebold electronic voting machines on the 8th November commenced the destruction of Fallujah which to the United States was a symbol of Iraqi resistance throughout the world. | | | With the war declared categorically illegal even by the Secretary General of the United Nations, on what basis does the US administration plan to increase troop levels.Why has it concealed from the world that it has already created four military bases in Iraq with the objective of permanent occupation. |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7475.htm
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| | World Tribunal for Iraq, Culminating Session Testimony |
| | Today he lies in bed still in a coma, and there has been no compensation provided to his now impoverished family for what was done to Sadiq Zoman. | | | I first went to Iraq in November of 2003 as an American citizen both frustrated and horrified by what my unelected government was doing. | | | I've recently released a report on the condition of Iraq's hospitals under occupation. |
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http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3731
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| | World Tribunal on Iraq |
| | Global anti-war activists created the World Tribunal on Iraq in 2003 to hold the Bush administration and its allies accountable for their actions, to establish facts about what happened in Washington and Iraq, and to inform the public of those facts. | | | The people of the US are responsible and must hold their government accountable." | | | Precedents for this process include the 1967 Russell Tribunal to investigate crimes by the U.S. and allies in Vietnam, and the International War Crimes Tribunal against weapons of mass destruction by the German Green Party in Nuremberg in 1983. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/newsprint.cgi?file=/news2004/0512-12.htm
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| | World Tribunal on Iraq |
| | Dahr Jamail pointed out that the Tribunal provided all the evidence the BBC needs, “from witnesses which included several Iraqis, of the US use of illegal weapons in Fallujah during November such as cluster bombs, uranium munitions, napalm and chemical weapons”. | | | Medialens have just written a great editorial on the World Tribunal on Iraq and specifically, the lack of BBC reporting on it. | | | Jamail also pointed to the “testimonies and photographs of the US military raiding hospitals and killing both doctors and civilians as what appears to now be their standard operating procedure for their military adventures in Iraq.” He concluded: |
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http://perceptualchaos.gnn.tv/blogs/7530/World_Tribunal_on_Iraq
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| | World Tribunal On Iraq < Tribunals < Activists < Political < : news feed |
| | At the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul on 25-27 June and largely ignored by the mass media, one of the most devastating accounts was given by a... | | | Because the media is completely controlled, no real news makes it out of Iraq. | | | Indeed the Jury of Conscience of the World Tribunal on Iraq (spokesperson the famous Indian writer Arundhati Roy) has issued a declaration that charges the UK... |
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http://schema-root.org/people/political/activists/tribunals/world_tribunal_on_iraq
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