International Bodies
Statement of Newweapons Committee at the International Citizens Tribunal
By Paola Manduca, Geneticist, University of Genoa, Italy. Text prepared for the International Citizens Tribunal, 22-24 February 2008, Brussels.
Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon
Published on 23 November 2006.
Uranium Weapons Cover-ups - a Crime against Humankind
By Piotr Bein, Ph.D., M.A.Sc., P.Eng. and Karen Parker, J.D., Diplome (Strasbourg).
Paper prepared in January 2003, for a monograph Politics and Environmental Policy in the 21st Century,
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade.
The Illegality of DU Weaponry (Source grassrootspeace.org)
Keith Baverstock PhD, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, KUOPIO, Finland.
Paper prepared for the International Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 16 - 19, 2003.
Presentation on depleted uranium to the European Parliament by Keith Baverstock (Source grassrootspeace.org)
Keith Baverstock PhD, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, KUOPIO, Finland. Presentation held on 23 June 2005.
Abstract: I have, during a career of some 30 years, developed expertise in evaluating risks regarding the environmental and occupational exposure to ionising radiation and radioactive materials in many different situations. I have done this in the context of employment by the UK Medical Research Council (1971 to 1991) and the European Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (1991 to 2003), both ostensibly "independent" organisations.
Radiological toxicity of Depleted Uranium
Background: The military use of depleted uranium (DU) and/or recycled uranium (RU) has given rise to public concern as to the impact on public health of exposure to environmental sources. Exposure to soluble natural uranium, through drinking water and the food chain, is ubiquitous. After military use, DU / RU are present in the environment either as metal or as oxide dusts. Due to the low specific activity of uranium, the potential effects of exposure are generally attributed to chemical toxicity. Insoluble particulates may be an exception.
Lebanon Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment (Source Unep)
Published in January 2007 by the United Nations Environment Programme.
No Evidence of Radioactive Residue in Lebanon (Source Unep)
Statement attributable to Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director. Published on 7 November 2006.
NAIROBI, 7 November, 2006 – The fieldwork of the post conflict environmental assessment of Lebanon has been completed by a team from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which carried out its work in Lebanon from 30 September to 21 October 2006.
Phosphorus shells used in Lebanon invasion (UN)
By Steve Connor, Science Editor. Published on The Independent on 8 November 2006.
Abstract: Israel fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus in its recent conflict with Hizbollah militants in the Lebanon, according to an official investigation by the United Nations.
White phosphorus is banned under the Geneva Convention when used against civilians or in civilian areas, although Israel insists that the shells were directed against solely military targets.
The WMD Commission Report
On 1 June 2006 the Chairman of Weapons of Mass Distruction Commission, Dr. Hans Blix, presented the Commission report "Weapons of Terror" to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York. The report contains sixty concrete proposals on how the world could be freed of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
The report was also handed over to Sweden's Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson, also president of the United Nations General Assembly.
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