The history of the children and youth
of the Republic of Iraq

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The social history in general of the Republic of Iraq

Iraqi children face death

By CARE, in Jordan Times, 18 December 1995.Iraq is currently facing a major battle to prevent the deaths of thousands of children from severe malnutrition, according to CARE.

The Children Are Dying—Exposing the Truth of the UN Sanctions Against Iraq

Reports by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Ramsey Clark, and an Appeal by World Leaders to the US Government and the UN Security Council: End the Use of Sanctions as a Weapon of War. Book review by Rania Masri, Iraq Action Coalition, 23 May 1996.

Nearly one million children malnourished in Iraq says UNICEF

South News, 26 November 1997. Almost one million children in southern and central Iraq are chronically malnourished. Health, nutrition and education issues—from immunization and safe water to school enrollment rates. A dramatic deterioration in the nutritional well-being of Iraqi children since 1991.

Iraq buries children, criticizes U.S.

CNN, 30 November 1997. Iraq maintains that about 100 children, some less than a year old, have died over the past few days because of a lack of food or medicine. Iraqi officials have repeatedly accused the United States of intending to uphold the sanctions for as long as President Saddam Hussein is in power. UNICEF) said that 32 percent of Iraqi children under 5 years of age were chronically malnourished, a 72% increase.

Iraq's children: Paying Washington's price with their lives

By Felicity Arbuthnot, UK, 10 February 1998. If 50 tons of residual DU dust was left in the area as a result of hostilities, there would be half a million extra cancer deaths by the end of the century, but some experts now estimate that up to 700 tons remain. DU remains radioactive for four thousand five hundred million years.

One million rounds of bullets tipped with uranium were fired during the Gulf war. They slice through tanks. And this is what they do to humans

By Louis Proyect, The Guardian, 21 December 1998. At least three times more children are being born with congenital deformities than before the Gulf war. Radiation from depleted uranium rounds remains the most plausible explanation.