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[Scoop NZ - Sci-tech] Scoop: UN Official Deplores Latest Bombings in Iraq: The Secretary-General’s SpecialRepresentative for Iraq, Staffan de Mistura, expressed greatconcern at the recent spike in violence in Baghdad and urgedall parties to deny those behind such “repugnant”attacks the opportunity to undermine efforts to thwart thecountry’s fragile stability.

[JURIST - Paper Chase] JURIST - Paper Chase: New Iraq human rights commission praised by ...: The SRSG also called on the Council of Representatives to ensure that the Commission will be responsive to the country's most vulnerable groups, including children, women and minorities. The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) .

[Care2 News Network - Newly Submitted] List of Iraqi academics assassinated in Iraq during the US-l ...: [Source: Iraqi Association of University Lecturers report, March 2006.] Natek Sabri Hasan: Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Mechanization and head of the College of Agronomy, Mosul University. [Source: Iraqi Association of University Lecturers report, March 2006.] Abdul Kader Ali Abdullah: Lecturer in the Department of Arabic, College of Education Sciences, Mosul University.

[Aswat Al Iraq] Violence against women in Iraq continues unpunished- UN : Aswat Al ...: Violence against women in Iraq continues unpunished- UN Voices of Iraq News Summary Voices of Iraq 18 Qaeda suspects nabbed- MNF Voices of Iraq $4B oil refinery to be set up in Missan Voices of Iraq Minister invites Arab organization to .

[Pakistan Daily] List of Iraqi academics assassinated in Iraq during the US-led ...: Killed 7 June 2007 by a group of armed men who shot him from a car when he was leaving the university with the lecturers Qais Sabah Al-Jabouri and Saad Jalifa Al-Ani, who were killed and seriously injured respectively.  press note of the Association of Muslims Scholars, 7 June 2007, and CEOSI Iraqi university sources, 9 June 2007.]

[hizb.org.uk | Full Site] MP says Iraq holds thousands in secret prisons: According to a United Nations report, some 51,000 people were detained by US forces and the Iraqi government at the end of last year. The report said some abuse had reportedly taken place during initial interrogations when detainees were held at pre-trial detention facilities, including police stations.

[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] U.S. and Allies Tortured Kids in Iraq Prisons | The Smirking Chimp: Officials from UNAMI, the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iran, said that children awaiting trial at severely overcrowded Tobchi prison, Baghdad, said they had been tortured and sexually abused while in custody in adult facilities prior to their transfer to Tobchi, and showed the marks to prove it. And at Karkh juvenile prison, children showed skin sores from lying on soggy mattresses in temperatures that average 112 during the day.

[Iraq Oil Report] Oil for Soil: Crisis Group proposes ”˜grand bargain’ on Iraq oil ...: A sober assessment of these requirements suggests a possible package deal revolving around a fundamental “oil-for-soil” trade-off: in exchange for at least deferring their exclusive claim on Kirkuk for ten years, the Kurds would obtain demarcation and security guarantees for their internal boundary with the rest of Iraq, as well as the right to manage and profit from their own mineral wealth. Such a deal would codify the significant gains the Kurds have made since they achieved limited autonomy in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War and especially after April 2003, while simultaneously respecting an Arab-Iraqi - as well as neighbouring states’ - red line regarding Kirkuk.

[The Gstaad Project] From tragedy to hope: the U.N. in Iraq « The Gstaad Project: The United Nations is also encouraging Iraq ’s neighbors to play a more constructive role in pacifying and rebuilding the country. A series of international meetings chaired by the United Nations and the Government of Iraq since last year has produced momentum for debt relief, policy and security reforms within Iraq under the framework of a five-year “international compact.” Just last week (14 August), the UN and the government announced a three-year humanitarian, reconstruction and development strategy that should result, among other things, in Iraq using more of its own considerable resources towards those ends.

[World War 4 Report blogs] Stop "gender cleansing" in Iraq | World War 4 Report: The Iraqi central and regional governments should ratify the UN conventions to end all forms of discrimination against women, and immediately enforce sanctions and take necessary legal measures based on the universal human rights standards, without condoning or encouraging gender-related killings and violence perpetrated under the name of "honor killing" or to "clear oneself of a disgrace." They should also take measures to support the women and bereaved families victimized by violence.

[UN Dispatch] UN as the "Legitimacy Depository of Last Resort" in Iraq: A recent report from the Brookings Institution concludes that the organization is uniquely situated to broker a political compromise in Iraq because "it is the only body that approximates neutrality and can claim all the relevant state actors within its membership." Only the United Nations can offer itself as a neutral convening ground for the contending factions and the neighbors, with their conflicting interests. But recent history provides good reason to worry that the United Nations will be drawn into the inferno of Iraq for all the wrong reasons, whether it be the American wish to transfer responsibility, and blame, for a hopeless cause or the ambition of a new secretary-general to prove his mettle, and that of his organization.

[SOPnewswire - The Student Operated Press] Casualty figures continue to climb in Iraq: According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 730,000 Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes since the al-Askari shrine in Samarra was bombed last February, adding to the approximately 1.2 million others displaced prior to that. Baghdad neighbourhoods have increasingly become split along Shia and Sunni lines, and this trend must be reversed to allow civilians to return to their homes, the Mission says.

[The Heritage Foundation Papers: Health Care] Getting the Big Ideas Right: The Strategic Concepts that Helped ...: What I wanted to speak about today was, of course, Iraq and then perhaps the future and the daunting responsibilities in the Central Command area, which is quite a vast one, as you know, and has a number of the world's other problems in addition to Iraq and its neighbors. As was mentioned, I just finished about three weeks ago a tour of a little over 19 months as the Commander of the Multi-National Force—Iraq, from February of 2007 to September 2008, having had two previous tours there, one as the Command­er of the 101st Airborne Division in the first year during the fight to Baghdad and then subsequently up in northern Iraq.

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