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Links and Resources on the UN
United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
UNMOVIC homepage (launched Jan 30, 2001)
A welcome addition. Provides links to UNMOVIC reports, organizational chart, documents and a chronology.
A welcome addition. Provides links to UNMOVIC reports, organizational chart, documents and a chronology.
Updated collection of UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq.
Security Council Resolution 1284 replaced UNSCOM with UNMOVIC and set (somewhat vague) conditions for the lifting of sanctions, notably the return of weapons inspections. See also the relevant press release.
United Nations Office of the Iraq Programme
UN department overseeing implementation of the Iraq oil-for-food programme. Provides full text of the Secretary General's reports, Security Council resolutions and weekly updates on the working of the oil-for-food programme.
Basic Facts About the Oil for Food Program
Provides basic information about the Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq.
UNSCOM Home Page
The old UN weapons inspection program's page, including facts, documents and reports about UNSCOM's operations.
Links and Resources on Post-War Iraq
International Compact for Iraq
This link provides information on the International Compact for Iraq, an initiative created by the United Nations at the request of the Iraq government. The compact aims to achieve a National Vision for Iraq by consolidating peace and pursuing political, economic and social development over the next five years.
Iraq Analysis Group
This site provides information about post-invasion Iraq. This includes a list of opinion polls carried out in Iraq, links to documents about the humanitarian situation, a collection of good sources of news about Iraq, and much else.
Iraq Index
This document contains a comprehensive list of post-war Iraq-related statistics, compiled by the Brookings Institution.
US Embassy Baghdad, Iraq Homepage
A link to the official homepage of the US Embassy in Iraq, established on June 28, 2004 following the "transfer of sovereignty" to Iraq's Interim Government.
Coalition Provisional Authority Homepage
A link to the official homepage of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of Iraq, the first Occupying Power in history to have its own website.
Development Fund for Iraq
Official website with information regarding the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) account balance and spending.
United Nations Homepage on Iraq
The official United Nations website dedicated to Iraq with UN news, documents and related information dealing exclusively with the Iraq Crisis.
International Advisory and Monitoring Board
The official website of the International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB). IAMB is an auditing oversight body created to monitor collection and disbursement of funds from the Development Fund for Iraq.
Iraq Revenue Watch
This site, run by the Open Society Institute, provides articles on Iraq's oil industry in the post-war era. It promotes transparency in the management of Iraq's oil industry to ensure that the benefits of the country's national oil wealth flow to the people of Iraq.
Middle East Reference
This website lists numerous political "organizations" in Iraq including civilian-based national secular groups, National Islamist groups, national officers' organizations, Kurdish groupings and other organizations based on ethnic identity. The site also lists noteworthy independent political figures in Iraq.
The National Security Archive
This website offers a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats.
Baghdad Bulletin
This self-described "non-partisan publication" based in Baghdad brings a plethora of articles and information on Iraq after Saddam Hussein's rule.
War in Iraq
This Russian-based site, said to be close to the Defense Ministry, provides articles and analysis about all aspects of the Iraq War in English and Russian. The site offers often original and critical analyses of the US occupation.
Cost of War
This website offers a cost of war counter giving up-to-the-minute information on the immense cost of war and occupation in Iraq.
Iraq Occupation Watch
This Baghdad-based International Occupation Watch Center act as a watchdog regarding the military occupation and US-appointed government and monitors the role of foreign companies in Iraq.
Iraq Body Count
This website is a human security project establishing an independent and comprehensive public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly from military action by the US and coalition forces.
Cryptome
This website chronicles US military deaths in Iraq from March 2003 to present including the names of the dead soldiers and how they died.
Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
This website chronicles military casualties and fatalities in Iraq from March 2003 to present. It provides casualty information for the US, the UK, and all other calition members.
Links and Resources on Oil in Iraq
US Energy Information Administration: Iraq Oil Page
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), created by US Congress in 1977, is a statistical agency of the US Department of Energy. EIA provides policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses on various oil-producing countries, including general information and Non-OPEC countries.
Petropolitics
Link to a web site with information on the connection between US oil interests and war in Iraq.
OPEC
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) is an international Organization of eleven developing countries which are heavily reliant on oil revenues as their main source of income. The current Members are Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.
Oil and Gas Journal Online
This online journal gives you the latest news on oil business.
Platts
Platts provides information and services in the fields of electricity, natural gas, oil, oil shipping, coal, nuclear energy and petrochemicals.
Oil News
News on international oil business and politics.
Links and Resources on the Humanitarian Crisis
Monitoring International Humanitarian Law in Iraq
The IHL Research Initiative portal offers unique access to academic and policy-oriented research material related to International Humanitarian Law. The portal has been developed in close cooperation between the Integrated Research and Information System (IRIS) and the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR)."
Emergency Humanitarian Action for the People of Iraq
This link lists humanitarian organizations working for people in Iraq or Iraqi refugees.
Reports on the Iraq Crisis
Information from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the crisis in Iraq.
Humanitarian Issues and ICRC Action in Iraq
Link to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) web site which provides news and background on the humanitarian issue in Iraq.
Human Rights Watch Report on Iraq
Human Rights Watch provides up-to-date information on the current humanitarian situation in Iraq and background to the war.
Iraq Body Count
This website is a human security project establishing an independent and comprehensive public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly from military action by the US and coalition forces.
IRC's Emergency Assistance For Iraqis
Reports and analysis on the humanitarian situation in Iraq provided by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Relief Web on the Latest in Iraq
The link to Relief Web's site including reports and statistical information on the humanitarian situation in Iraq.
CNS Special Report on Iraq
Link to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) providing materials on the Iraq crisis including commentaries and articles from the "The Nonproliferation Review."
Links and Resources on NGOs, News and Other Agencies
The American Enterprise Institute
AEI is a conservative Washington-based think-tank that has close ties to Wall Street and corporate boardrooms. Richard Perle, one of the administration's most avid hawks, works at AEI, and the Institute has favored a US military strike against Iraq and against "Middle Eastern Tyranny."Campaign Against Sanctions in Iraq
First known as "Campaign Against Sanctions in Iraq", CASI aimed to raise awareness of the effects of sanctions on Iraq, and campaigns on humanitarian grounds for the lifting of non-military sanctions. After the outbreak of war in 2003, CASI members officially transformed it into "Cambridge in Solidarity with Iraq" in autumn 2003, and wound down in Spring 2005. The original CASI website remains an extensive collection of resources and information.The Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is Washington's leading neoliberal policy center and the least hawkish of the conservative think-tanks. Skeptical of "foreign military adventurism," Cato scholars have published a number of articles critical of Bush's policy toward 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.Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq (CCPI)
Introduction to speeches, points of view and links on the Iraq sanctions regime.FAS: Iraq Crisis Page
Federation of American Scientists provides a large and diverse US resource on the Iraq Crisis - including background information, an archive of news articles, details of each operation, and links to government sites and anti-war organizations.The Future of a Post-Saddam Iraq: A Blueprint for American Involvement
The right-wing Heritage Foundation has put together a package of proposals for how to impose order in Iraq after the war and how to use military force to secure vital US interests.
The Gulf/2000 Project: Iraq Page
Colombia University has put together a comprehensive site with links to what they have identified as the most informative and reliable sources of information about Iraq.
House of Commons Select Committee (UK)
The British Parliamentary Committee on International Development takes a look at whether the sanctions on Iraq are hitting the right people.
Iraq Action Coalition
This site protesting sanctions has a variety of articles and analysis. Includes a page of articles on Denis Halliday, who resigned his UN post in protest of the sanctions.Iraq Daily
Collects news articles concerning Iraq and sanctions.Iraq Resource Information Site
Detailed information about Iraq, and articles and discussion about sanctions.
Life and Death in Iraq (1999)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer'sspecial report on Iraq provides news, a historical perspective, analysis, and portraits of Iraqi people and daily life in Iraq.Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
Posts analytical articles concerning Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries.Save the Children-UK
Committed to creating a better world for children, this is one of the UK's leading organizations in this area. Very active in Iraq issues.The Impact on International Law of a Decade of Measures Against Iraq
The University of Michigan and the European Journal of International Law have held their own conference on Iraq in May 2001. The European Journal of International Law will publish the proceedings by 2002.Paul Colon , United Nations Sanctions Management: A Case Study of the Iraq Sanctions Committee, 1990-1994, Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute Publications, Washington, 2000
Paul Colon, who worked with the 661 Committee, describes the work of this Committee and other sanctions committees and raises legal questions regarding sanctions.The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
An influential, conservative pro-Israel think tank with many ties to the Bush administration, WINEP has published papers favoring US war on Iraq. See also the book on a post-Saddam Iraq political order.Links and Resources on Media Coverage of the War
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
FAIR, a US media watch group, offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship.Institute for Public Accuracy
The Institute for Public Accuracy works to introduce alternative idea into the mass media and promotes the inclusion of outlooks that usually are disregarded.Center For War, Peace And The News Media
This NYU-based organization investigates the role of the media in the dynamics of war, peace, and conflict.MediaLens
Media Lens is a UK-based media-watch project, which offers authoritative criticism of mainstream media bias and censorship, as well as providing in-depth analysis, quotes, media contact details and other resources.Links and Resources on Iraq's Historical Background
Timeline Iraq
The Guardianbriefly chronicles the history of Iraq since Saddam Hussein became president in July 1979.
