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GENEVA, March 12 (KUNA) -- Talking on behalf of a London based
non-governmental-organization (NGO) Women's Solidarity for an Independent and
Unified Iraq, Malak Hamdan said Thursday that the Iraqi and the Kuwaiti people
have strong brotherly ties.
On the sidelines of the Human Rights Council convening in Geneva Hamdan
called upon the Kuwaiti people to come to the help of the Iraqi people.
In a panel discussion on "the Security Council and Human Rights" sponsored
by the Union of Arab Jurists and more than other 10 NGOs, Hamdan said that the
cancer patient figures in Iraq for 2007 show that there are more than 140,000
cases of cancer, 8,000 new every year.
According to a study by Dr. Jawad Al Ali of Basra Teaching Hospital, she
said that in some parts of Iraq cancer cases have gone up by 242 percent since
1990.
"56 percent of cancer patients are children under the age of 5 and that 70
percent of cancer cases could be treated but they are not because of lack of
equipment and medical supplies," she said.
She confirmed that 304 journalists were killed in Iraq since March 2003 and
that the perpetrators were not brought to justice up to date.
The eminent Arab jurist, expert and professor of International Law Dr.
George Abi-Saab told the same panel that the absence of a body to bring
accountability to the Security-Council was a major problem for Human Rights.
He added that in order to bring Israel accountable on its Gaza, Lebanon
invasions and other acts must search for alternative fora.
Abi-Saab noted that the famous ruling of the International Court of Justice
(ICJ) that says that the construction of the wall being built by Israel, the
occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and
around East Jerusalem, and its associated regime, are contrary to
international law; was overshadowed by a second wall created by the Western
countries and Western media. (end)
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