Former UN human rights chief in Baghdad Tahar Boumedra: Why I Quit the UN in Iraq
By Tahar Boumedra
For the past three and a half years I have served first as chief of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) Human Rights Office and then as adviser to the Secretary General’s Special Representative for Iraq, monitoring, among other things, the human rights and the humanitarian situation of 3,400 Iranian exiles who have made their home north of Baghdad since 1986 at a place called Camp Ashraf. Iraq’s government has decided to terminate their presence in Iraq and required them to vacate Camp Ashraf. UNAMI has been facilitating their temporary relocation to a former base in Baghdad called Camp Liberty, with the purported task of conducting “refugee status determination” for all of these people and ensuring that international norms of human and humanitarian rights are maintained.
Iran isn’t afraid of the US or Israel
By Homeira HesamiThe government of Iran has been through international disdain and condemnation before. The Iranian regime isn’t scared of increased sanctions, greater isolation, or harsher words. And the mullahs aren’t concerned about the American or Israeli governments taking military action against them. The Iranian regime is only afraid of the Iranian people’s collective anger.
Toppling Iran's Unsteady Regime
By Emanuele OttolenghiOrdinary Iranians are having to tighten their belts since the European Union's oil embargo came into force on July 1. The decades of economic mismanagement by Iran's authoritarian leaders have culminated in five years of increasingly stern sanctions, which are crippling Iran's economy. And notwithstanding the regime's defiant dismissal of their impact, sanctions have left many Iranian families with empty bank accounts and hollow stomachs.
Iran's Freedom March
By Hossein AbediniOn Saturday 23 June 2012, over 100,000 Iranian exiles and supporters of the Iranian resistance from five continents gathered in a historical rally at the convention centre in the northern suburb of Villepinte, Paris, to demand democratic change in Iran and immediate international measures to guarantee basic rights of Iranian Resistance members in Ashraf and Liberty.
A consistent policy on terrorism, please
By Tod RobbersonPolicy-making is a three-dimensional exercise. In order for it to be a policy, you have to base your position on a principle. You define the principle and the set of generic circumstances in which it applies, which gives it breadth. The hard part comes when you set about applying the principle to specific cases.
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