Briefings

• Latest ARROW briefings
• 10 Demands (7 May 2003) + campaigning postcards
• Profit and Loss (1 May 2003) - the humanitarian crisis in Iraq from Voices UK
• Hearts and Minds: Aid and reconstruction in Iraq (16 April 2003) - a CASI briefing
• Iraq Responsibilities of the occupying powers (16 April 2003) - Amnesty International
• The War Is Not Over (11 April 2003) - the humanitarian crisis in Iraq from Voices UK
• Humanitarian Principles and the Conflict in Iraq - a useful briefing paper from the Overseas Development Institute covering humanitarian priciple, legal obligations, and particular challenges.

Recent reports on the situation in Iraq

• Iraq: Struggle to restore basic services - 15 May 2003
  
• Disease outbreak reported: Cholera in Iraq - Update from WHO - 14 May 2003
  
• Iraq survey finds slide in child health - 14 May 2003
  
• Voices in the Wilderness call to end sanctions - 10 May 2003
  
• US military in Baghdad bans American peace campaigners from Palestine Hotel press centre after revelations of humanitarian planning failure. (18 April 2003)
  
• Bomb before you buy What is being planned in Iraq is not reconstruction but robbery Naomi Klein in The Guardian - 14 April 2003
  
• Three weeks on, and still no water. Now doctors fear an epidemic - The Guardian - 14 April 2003
  
• Iraq: Latest news from International Committee of the Red Cross staff in the field - 13 April 2003
  
• As looting continues, US hires controversial company to police - 13 April 2003
  Electronic Iraq rounds up recent coverage about the hiring of controversial company Dyncorp with a multi-million-dollar contract to police post-Saddam Iraq and looks into the history of human rights abuses in the company.
  
• Iraq: Looting, lawlessness and humanitarian consequences - Amnesty International - 11 April 2003
  
• Iraq: Civilians under fire - Amnesty International - 08 Apr 2003
  
• Conditions 'terrible' in Baghdad hospital - Red Cross - 07 Apr 2003
  
• UN aid agencies paint grim picture of massive relief tasks in Iraq - 07 April 2003
  
• Millions of mines will litter Iraq, expert says - 7 April 2003
  
• UNEP Recommends Studies of Depleted Uranium in Iraq - 6 Apr 03. See Key issues for UN uranium testing in Iraq by Dai Williams (10 April 2003) - a response to UNEP.
  
• Viewpoint: 'The West does not understand Iraqis' - 3 Apr 03
  
• Iraqi People Facing Humanitarian Crisis An Interview With Dennis Halliday
  by Dennis Halliday and Scott Harris, Between the Lines, April 07, 2003
  
• United Nations Population Fund warns of risks of war to pregnant women - 21 March 2003

News sources
For updates from a variety of NGOs and aid agencies on the humanitarian situation in Iraq view ReliefWeb and UN Humanitarian Information Centre for Iraq

Also see: Electronic Iraq; Occuptation Watch; Amnesty International - Crisis in Iraq section; Iraq Indymedia; Future of Iraq web portal; Robert Fisk

For an independent assessment of the numbers of civilian casualties, click here.