Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) (original) (raw)

This website is maintained as an archive of sanctions-related documents and other materials by theIraq Analysis Group. IAG provides listings of information sources on post-invasion Iraq, and also writes analysis and briefings, all found atwww.iraqanlysis.org.

The Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) aimed to raise awareness of the effects of sanctions on Iraq, and campaigned on humanitarian grounds for the lifting of non-military sanctions. With the lifting of sanctions in May 2003, the campaign has now been dissolved. This website is maintained as an archive of information relating to the sanctions and Iraq before this date. CASI did not support or have ties to the government of Iraq.

"if the substantial reduction in child mortality throughout Iraq during the 1980s had continued through the 1990s, there would have been half a million fewer deaths of children under-five in the country as a whole during the eight year period 1991 to 1998" Unicef, 12 August 1999.

"We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral." Denis Halliday, after resigning as first UN Assistant Secretary General and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, The Independent, 15 October 1998

Latest Information

(as of 18th October 2003)

• CASI dissolves and forms new organisation. At an EGM on 18th October, the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq was formally dissolved. Former members of CASI have since established a new research organisation, the Iraq Analysis Group, which provides information and analysis on post-invasion Iraq.
• Transfer of the Oil for Food programme: document collection
• Archive of Peter Brooke's compilations of Iraq news (updated 23 November 2003)
• UN resolution 1511, authorising a multinational force in Iraq, along with several earlier drafts (16 October 2003)
• Special report of the FAO/WFP Crop, food supply and nutrition assessment mission to Iraq (23 September 2003)
• Extended page of information about the CPA, the US authority in Iraq, including a thematic listing and summaries of all CPA orders
• "Iraq's Shiites Under Occupation" (International Crisis Group report, 9 September 2003). Summary or full report.
• International Crisis Group report "Governing Iraq" (25 August 2003). Read either the summary or the full report.
• "Were sanctions right?", New York Times magazine article by David Rieff (27 July 2003). Analysis by Nathaniel Hurd in this CASI discussion list posting.
• Report of the UN Secretary General on conditions and UN activity in Iraq (17 July 2003)
• Annual mortality rates and excess deaths of children under five in Iraq, 1991-98. (by M. Ali, J. Blacker and G. Jones). Paper to be printed in Population Studies, July 2003. Based on UNICEF 1999 mortality survey, estimates that 400-500,000 excess deaths occurred as a result of the Gulf War and its aftermath. (added 03 July 2003)
• CASI press release: NGO welcomes lifting of sanctions, calls on UN to learn from mistakes (22 May 2003)
• UN lifts sanctions - UN statement. The full text of the resolution can be found here. (22 May 2003)
• New CASI briefing, Hearts and Minds: Aid and reconstruction in Iraq (16 April 2003).
• Internal UN planning documents on the humanitarian impact of war on Iraq (December 2002 - January 2003)
• Other recent additions to the website are recorded on the What's New page.

CASI is a registered society at the University of Cambridge, England.