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Amnesty International were in The State of Kuwait this week so does anybody have media news or reports on their event there and whether they included 'anti-sanctions' activities on their Agenda - if so, what was the result please ? [ If not WHY not ? ] > Adriano > -----Original Message----- From: Seb Wills <saw27@cam.ac.uk> To: Mark Parkinson <mark@bodmin-comm-coll.demon.co.uk> Cc: soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk> Date: 25 February 2000 10:08 Subject: Re: Amnesty International USA > >On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Mark Parkinson wrote: > > AI USA has a petition to the UNSC (on its website) addressing the > humanitarian situation in Iraq. > > http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/iraq/ > >Thanks for posting this, Mark. I've been meaning to write to the list >about this for a while. > >Beth Ann Toupin, of the AI USA Middle East Coordination Group, wrote this >when I asked her about the petition: > > Actually, the petition IS an "official" AI action. Right now, we are in > the midst of a section-level action on Iraq -- sent out from London to all > sections. One of my other pieces of business when I came to your > conference was to spend time at the Secretariat pushing for this petition. > I wanted it to say more, but this is as much as the powers that be feel we > can say within our current mandate constraints. I do think that it is > better than saying nothing. It became clear at your conference that some > people who are active on this issue have taken AI's silence as a statement > that nothing is wrong with what is going on in Iraq. We don't want that! > So, we are saying what we can. > > The researchers managed to attach this "humanitarian action" as an addendum > to the section-level action. While -- for obvious reasons -- the US and UK > are not being asked to actively participate in the broader action, we have > been asked to push this petition action. The petition has been sent to all > AI sections and groups (in countries without sections). The end of the > action is scheduled for March 30. > > I hope this is clear now. If you have any more questions, please feel free > to contact me. I do think (hope) that AI-UK has this petition and is > acting on it. If you know anyone there, you could check on this. > > >Has anyone seen any sign of AI UK issuing the petition? It might be good >for people to write to AIUK and ask about it... (and indeed sign it) > >cheers > >seb -- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- >This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq >For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk >Full archive and list instructions are available from the CASI website: >http://welcome.to/casi > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full archive and list instructions are available from the CASI website: http://welcome.to/casi