As members of the global community, we call upon the United Nations to immediately end these punitive sanctions and to develop a meaningful new approach toward Iraq based on restoring human dignity and developing relations for a lasting and just peace.
We, the undersigned, compelled by our conscience, stand firmly opposed to unilateral US policy against Iraq as imposed by the United Nations. According to UNICEF, children under five years of age are dying at more than twice the rate than before economic sanctions were imposed. It is reported that more than one million civilians have died as a result of these sanctions and radioactive fallout.
Believing that these sanctions have become a weapon of mass destruction, we call upon the United Nations to acknowledge that the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq are a failed policy that has caused inhumane levels of suffering and destruction of UNESCO cultural heritage sites; and is totally incompatible with the spirit and wording of the United Nations' Charter and the United Nations' Declarations of Human Rights and definitions of War Crimes.
As members of the global community, we call upon the United Nations to immediately end these punitive sanctions and to develop a meaningful new approach toward Iraq based on restoring human dignity and developing relations for a lasting and just peace.
As citizens of the United States, we call upon members of Congress to comply with established treaty obligations and international law, by releasing funds designated for UN missions of peace.
Signed petitions will be presented to the United Nations in New York, New York, USA by members of The Green Party of the United States, Doctors Without Borders, Pax Christi USA and Voices In The Wilderness on United Nations Day - October 24, 2001.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
