The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was a people's court consisting of intellectuals,
human rights
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campaigners and
non-governmental organization
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s, and was active from 2003 to 2005. Set up following the
2003 invasion of Iraq
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it sprung from the anti-war movement and is modelled on the
Russell Tribunal
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of the American movement against the
Vietnam War
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.
Actions
* Brussels, April 14–17, 2004 - the
Brussels Tribunal hearings focused on the programs and policies of the
Project for the New American Century
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See also
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The UN Security Council and the Iraq war
In March 2003 the United States government announced that "diplomacy has failed" and that it would proceed with a "coalition of the willing" to rid Iraq under Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction the US and UK falsely insisted it poss ...
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Protests against the 2003 Iraq war
Beginning in late 2002, and continuing after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, large-scale protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated to occur simultaneously around the world. After the biggest series of demon ...
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Governments' pre-war positions on invasion of Iraq
This article describes the positions of world governments before the actual initiation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and not their current positions as they may have changed since then.
Background
In 2002, the United States began to campaign fo ...
Publications
The most complete collection of the proceedings of the Tribunal has been collected in Sökmen, M. G. Roy, A., Falk, R. (eds.) 2008. ''World Tribunal on Iraq: Making the Case Against War''. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press.
See also:
Borowiak, C. 2008. 'The World Tribunal on Iraq: Citizens’ Tribunals and the Struggle for Accountability'. ''New Political Science'', 30:161-186.
Cubukcu, A. 2011. ‘On Cosmopolitan Occupations. The Case of the World Tribunal on Iraq’, ''Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies'', 13:422-442.
J. Gerson and D. Snauwaert. 2021. ''Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice: Democratizing Justice in the World Tribunal on Iraq.'' Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
References
External links
* The original website
is no longer available. The
Internet Archive, internet archive preserves
copy of the site as of 2007/04 al Jazeera
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, 28 June 2005
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