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Article: IRAQ: U.S. CONDEMNS IRAQ'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 5, 2001
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The U.S. Department of State's 25th annual report on human rights practices around the world noted that the Iraqi government's human rights record "remained extremely poor." The report also comments on events in the Kurd-controlled northern part of the country. The State Department relied on information from Amnesty International, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the Iraqi Communist Party, the Iraqi National Congress, Human Rights Watch, and the UN, although it noted that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' Special Representative for Iraq was not allowed to visit the country. The report's first section discusses respect for the integrity of ...