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Culminating Session in Istanbul, 23-27 June
The Istanbul session will serve as a culmination point of the WTI process until June, taking into account the entirety of the above tribunal sessions. Based on this also, the session will take the further step of examining and exposing the implications of WTI findings.
Programme of Hearings
DAY ONE, 24 JUNE 2005
09:00 – 09:30 Arundhati Roy, Opening Speech of the Spokesperson of the Jury of Conscience and the Introduction of the Jury
09:30 – 09:50 Richard Falk, Opening Speech on behalf of the Panel of Advocates: Macro approach to the system; the "moral" responsibility underlying the constitution of the UN; the limits to the exercise of power for the states; violation of international law.
First Session / The Role of International Law and Institutions (Moderator: T. Tarhanlı)
09:50 – 10:00 Turgut Tarhanlı: The Framework of the Session
10:00 – 10:20 Phil Shiner: The Illegality of preventive attack and unilateral use of force; the illegality of use of force in inter-state relations; the illegality of the occupation.
10:20 – 10:40 Hans von Sponeck: The conduct of the UN before and after the 2003 invasion
10:40 – 11:00 Larry Everest: The history of US and UK Interventions in Iraq
11:00 – 11:20 Questions from the Jury
11:20 – 11:40 Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:00 Jim Harding: Neo-Colonization Trends
12:00 – 12:20 Amy Bartholomew: Empire's Law and Human Rights as Swords of Empire
12:20 – 12:40 Issa Shivji: Implications of the Decrease in Confidence in International Institutions and International Law
12:40 – 13:00 Tony Alessandrini: The Violation of the Will of Global Anti-War Movement as a Crime Against Peace
13:00 – 13:20 Questions from the Jury
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch
Second Session / The Responsibility of Governments (Moderator: Ahmet İnsel)
14:30 – 14:50 Baskın Oran: U.S. Attack on Iraq and the Policy of the Turkish Government
14:50 – 15:10 Khaled Fahmy: The Responsibility of Arab Governments in the Iraq War
15:10 – 15:30 Guglielmo Carchedi: The Responsibility of European Governments
15:30 – 15:50 Walden Bello: The Responsibility of the Coalition of the Willing and Their Supporters
15:50 – 16:10 Questions from the Jury
16:10 – 16:30 Coffee Break
Third Session / The Accountability of the Media (Moderator: Ömer Madra)
16:30 – 16:50 Saul Landau: Economic-Political Connections of Media
16:50 – 17:10 David Miller: Media Wrongs in the War and Occupation
17:10 – 17:30 Witness - Mete Çubukçu: Moral Responsibility of War Journalism
17:30 – 17:50 Jayan Nayar: Media Wrongs against Truth and Humanity
17:50 – 18:10 Ömer Madra: The Quest for an Alternative Media
18:10 – 18:30 Questions from the Jury
SECOND DAY, 25 JUNE 2005
09:00 – 09:10 Summary of the Previous Day
Fourth Session / The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Moderator: Haifa Zangana)
09:10 – 09:20 Haifa Zangana: The Framework of the Session
09:20 – 09:40 Witness - Dahr Jamail: Testimony on War Crimes and the Recent Situation in Iraq
09:40 – 10:00 Akira Maeda / Sayo Saruta / Koichi Inamori: The Excessive Use of Weapons and Banned Weapons
10:00 – 10:20 Thomas Fasy: The Health Effects of DU Weapons in Iraq
10:20 – 10:40 Witness - Denis Halliday: The Conduct of the UN
10:40 – 11:00 Questions from the Jury
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:40 Hana Ibrahim: Gender Based Violence (security and gender based violence)
11:40 – 12:00 Eman Khammas: Ruin of Daily Life (security and education system)
12:00 – 12:20 Witness - Tim Goodrich: The Conduct of the US Army
12:20 – 12:40 Amal Sawadi: Detentions and Prison Conditions
12:40 – 13:00 Witness - Fadhil Al Bedrani: Collective Punishment
13:00 – 13:20 Questions from the Jury
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch
Fourth Session / Cont. ... (Moderator: Joel Kovel)
14:30 – 14:50 Joel Kovel: Effects of the War on the Infrastructure
14:50 – 15:10 Herbert Docena: Economic Colonization
15:10 – 15:30 Mohammed Al Rahoo: Iraqi Law Under Occupation
15:30 – 15:50 Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty: The Transfer of Power in Iraq
15:50 – 16:10 Niloufer Bhagwat: The Privatization of War
16:10 – 16:30 Questions from the Jury
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee Break
16:50 – 17:10 Huda Al Nuaimi: The Occupation as Prison
17:10 – 17:30 Barbara Olshansky: Covert Practices in the U.S. War on Terror and the Implications for International Law: The Guantanamo Example
17:30 – 17:50 Witness - Mark Manning / Rana M. Mustafa: Testimony on Falluja
17:50 – 18:10 Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi: Human Rights Violations and the Disappeared in Iraq
18:10 – 18:30 Johan Galtung: Human Rights and the U.S./U.K. Illegal Attack on Iraq
18:30 – 18:50 Questions from the Jury
THIRD DAY, 26 JUNE 2005
09:00 – 09:10 Summary of the Previous Day
Fifith Session / Cultural Heritage, Environment and World Resources (Moderator: Hilal Elver)
09:10 – 09:20 Hilal Elver: The Framework of the Session
09:20 – 09:40 Gül Pulhan: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: A Report from the Istanbul Initiative
09:40 – 10:00 Witness - Amal Al Khedairy: Testimony on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage
10:00 – 10:20 Joel Kovel: The Ecological Implications of the War
10:20 – 10:40 Witness - Souad Naji Al-Azzawi: Tes. on Radioactive Contamination in Iraq
10:40 – 11:00 Questions from the Jury
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break
Sixth Session / Global Security Environment and Future Alternatives (Moderator: Ayşe Gül Altınay)
11:20 – 11:40 Ayşe Gül Altınay: Militarism and the Culture of Violence
11:40 – 12:00 Nadje Al-Ali: Gender and War: The Plight of Iraqi Women
12:00 – 12:20 Liz Fekete: Creating Racism and Intolerance
12:20 – 12:40 Samir Amin: The Economy of Militarization
12:40 – 13:00 Ahmad Mohamed Al-Jaradat: Relationship between Iraq, Palestine and Israel.
13:00 – 13:20 Questions from the Jury
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch
Sixth Session / Continues
14:30 – 14:50 Wamidh Nadhmi: Polarization and the Narrowing Scope of Political Alternatives
14:50 – 15:10 John Ross: Collateral Damage: The Mexican Example
15:10 – 15:30 Christine Chinkin: Human Security in Iraq
15:30 – 15:50 Ken Coates: The Future of the Peace Movement
15:50 – 16:10 Corrine Kumar: Towards a New Political Imaginary
16:10 – 16:30 Biju Matthew: Alternatives for an Alternative Future
16:30 – 17:00 WTI İstanbul Coordination: The WTI as an Alternative: An Experimental Assertion
17:00 – 17:20 Questions from the Jury
17:20 – 17:40 Coffee Break
17:40 – 18:00 Richard Falk - Closing Speech on Behalf of the Panel of Advocates
18:00 – 18:20 Arundhati Roy - Closing Speech on Behalf of the Jury of Conscience
18:20 – 18:30 The Closing of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul.
27 JUNE 2005
11.00 Press conference announcing the decision of the Jury of Conscience at Hotel Armada
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World Tribunal - New York _ Documents
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Session of World Tribunal on Iraq. ----- The Final Statement of the Jury of ...
http://www.worldtribunal-nyc.org/Document/
The Istanbul Session - The Final Outcome
You can see local website in Turkish at http://istanbul.worldtribunal.org
Taking its cue from the Russell Tribunal of the late 1960s, the World Tribunal on Iraq is aimed at challenging the silence around the aggression against Iraq and seeking the truth about the war and occupation in Iraq. This will be a record of wrongs, violations and crimes as well as suffering, resistance and silenced voices. This will be a process of listening, reflection, evaluation and informed judgement based on concrete evidence. This will be a call to conscience and a call to act to preserve our futures.
The conceptual framework of the Istanbul session is twofold:
(A) An investigation of the wrongs committed against the people of Iraq:
1.Whether the “coalition governments” are guilty of a gross and criminal violation of the life, liberty and dignity of the people of Iraq as a result of war. Whether those governments that are outside the coalition forces, but have provided the forces with various facilities, are guilty of complicity.
2.Whether the current occupation in Iraq is illegal, illegitimate and in violation of the sovereignty of the people of Iraq.
3.Whether the coalition governments and the corporations operating in Iraq are guilty of continuing violations of the fundamental rights of the people of Iraq through the criminal conduct of political manipulation and economic plundering affected under the guise of transition to “democracy”.
4.Whether the political institutions of the international community are responsible for giving way to the infliction of injustice on the people of Iraq.
5.Whether the media has been complicit in the aforementioned violations by not fulfilling its social responsibility to convey the truth.
(B) An investigation of issues related to the implementation of justice, including:
1.What implications does this war carry on the ability of political and legal institutions to fulfil the aspirations of the world’s citizens?
2.Have we been lied to? If we cannot rely on the media to get to the truth, then what are the implications?
3.What impact does the war on Iraq have on global security? What are the main dangers facing the majority of the world’s population? What implications does the discourse on the ‘War on Terrorism’ have on the civil liberties of people around the world?
4.What implications, in terms of the future of humanity, flow from the destruction affected upon the world’s cultural heritage, the environment and our resources in general?
5.Following the bombings in Istanbul, Madrid, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and other countries, can we accept the claim that the threat of ‘terrorism’ is being reduced by the current US/UK strategies of violence?
6.What options do we face and what alternatives can we imagine?
This tribunal shall render a decision on the issues presented to it, which will be widely distributed throughout the world for the benefit of individuals and groups struggling for peace and justice.
You can find more in Press Kit section
http://www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=44
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Jury of Conscience
AHMET ÖZTÜRK
(Turkey)
Oztürk as been active in many NGO's. He is a member of the Board of Zonguldak Cultural and Education Foundation and is a columnist in a local newspaper. He is working as a mine worker.
ARUNDHATI ROY
(India)
Renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy received the Booker Prize for literature in 1997. Presently, one of the most eloquent voices for the global justice and anti-war movement, she was also awarded, among many others, the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004, and the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize in 2002.
AYŞE ERZAN
(Turkey)
Professor of Physics at the Istanbul Technical University, she has been active in the Peace Initiative of Turkey. L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science 2003 Laureate for Europe.
CHANDRA MUZAFFAR
(Malesia)
Chandra Muzaffar is one of Malaysia's most prominent human rights activists. Founder of Aliron, a multi-ethnic Malaysian reform movement dedicated to justice, freedom, and solidarity, he was its president from 1977 to 1991. Prof. Muzaffar, who used to teach at the Center for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, is now the president of the International Movement for a Just World. Prof. Muzaffar is a Board member of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism based in Belgium. He is the author of many books including Human Rights & the New World Order and Muslims, Dialogue, Terror.
DAVID KRIEGER
(USA)
Founder and President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, an international organization dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons, the strengthening of international law, and the empowerment of a new generation of peace leaders. Dr. Krieger has lectured throughout the world on issues of peace, international law and the elimination of nuclear weapons, and is the author and editor of many books on these subjects, including Nuclear Weapons and the World Court and, most recently, Today Is Not a Good Day for War (poetry). He is the recipient of the 2005 Global Green Millennium Award for International Evironmental Leadership.
DUMISA NSEBEZA
(South Africa)
Member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid regime in 1995, where the victims of violence along with those that applied violence gave testimonies aiming to reach social reconciliation.
EVE ENSLER
(USA)
Eve Ensler's Obie-Award-winning play, "The Vagina Monologues", translated into over 35 languages and running in theaters all over the world, initiated V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. She is also Chair of the Women's Committee of PEN American Center and is an Executive Producer of "What I want my words to do to you", a documentary about the writing group she has led since 1998 at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
FRANÇOIS HOUTART
(Belgium)
He participated in the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on US Crimes in Vietnam in 1967. He is a spiritual father and a member of the International Committee of the World Social Forum of Porto Alegre, Director of the Tricontinental Center (Cetri) for research on alternative globalisation, Executive Secretary of the Alternative World Forum, and President of the International League for rights and liberation of people. He participated as an expert to the works of Concile Vatican II (1962-1965). He has numerous works on globalization, social stuggles, and regularly collaborates with Le Monde Diplomatique.
ISAIAS VEDOVATTO
(Brazil)
Brazilian peasant, member of the MST national coordination.
JAE-BOK KIM
(South Korean)
South Korean priest. Iraq Peace Team member. Went on a 58-day hunger strike upon Korean government's decision to send troops on Iraq.
LYDIA MIY DE ALMEIDA
(Argentina)
Representative of Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (Linea Fundadora), an NGO dedicated to peace and human rights formed my mothers looking for justice after their children were kidnapped and mostly killed during the dictatorship in Argentina named the "Dirty War" (1976-83).
MEHMET TARHAN
(Turkey)
Anti-militarist and gay rights activist Tarhan declared his conscientious objection in October 2001, on the grounds of which he was arrested on April 8th, 2005. He has currently been transferred to his unit without his consent.
MIGUEL ANGEL DE LOS SANTOS CRUZ
(Mexico)
In 1994, de los Santos became the lawyer for the Non-Governmental Organizations' Coordinator for Peace, or CONPAZ, a human rights group founded to end the unrest in Chiapas. He has defended more than 100 indigenous Mexicans accused of membership in the guerrilla Zapatista army. When tensions in Chiapas boiled over in 1996, de los Santos was targeted by right-wing extremists, but the young attorney refu
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