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Over the last few weeks, there's been quite a few new additions to CASI's website, which I thought you all might like to know about. Here's a list of the main additions -- I hope you are able to find something useful and informative in there. ----------------------- 1. The Security Council's "Working Group on General Issues on Sanctions", established "to develop general recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of United Nations sanctions", has been unable to agree on the text of the final report that they were meant to produce last November. However, the chairperson (Anwarul Karim Chowdhury of Bangladesh) has produced a near-consensus draft. The latest draft we know of is from 14 February 2001, and it was sent to CASI. http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/scwgs140201.html This draft report focuses on how to manage sanctions effectively, rather than how to analyse the effects from a humanitarian perspective and evaluate them for their effects on a population. For me, it is disappointing from that angle. Nevertheless, if this report does come close to the current positions of the US and UK, it's one of the clearest indications from those countries that they admit to the flawed way in which sanctions were designed and continue to operate for Iraq (see especially "Cluster II", eg on how sanctions should only be imposed for a limited time). ----------------------- 2. "Oil, Sanctions, Debt and the Future" by Abbas Alnasrawi http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/alnasrawi.html This paper on the future of Iraq's economy is by a Professor of Economics at Vermont Uni. It was originally presented at CASI's conference in March 2001. ----------------------- 3. The index of governments' statements on Iraq has been greatly expanded. http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/gov.html It now contains an extensive list of statements on sanctions, not only from the permanent five members of the Security Council, but also from 18 other States and three intergovernmental and interparliamentary bodies. If you want to know what the governments of Oman and Malaysia think of sanctions, this site should be useful. ----------------------- 4. As well as our listing of research papers on Iraq by author at http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/research.html we now have also organised this thematically. http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/themes.html This index currently shows the major internet resources on Iraq and sanctions for each of seven major themes. ----------------------- 5. An index of resolutions by student unions and professional associations opposing sanctions on Iraq, together with the original texts of these resolutions: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/ngoresolutions.html ----------------------- 6. A full listing of Iraqi opposition and minority rights groups: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/othersites.html ----------------------- 7. An index of links to audiovisual footage of Iraq under sanctions: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/av.html ----------------------- There's also, from slightly earlier, the audio recordings of CASI's March 2001 conference at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/conf2001/ And CASI's nearly-new guide to sanctions: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/guide/ If you have any suggestions about how to improve any of the above sites, or can give us new information or links that we could add, then please drop me a note. Good wishes Glen. Glen Rangwala Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RQ UK Tel: 44 (0)1223 334535 Fax (shared): 44 (0)7092 330826 Home tel: 44 (0)1223 515183 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk