June 16th to June 30th
Initiated by Jubilee Iraq* and Voices in the Wilderness**

International social justice activists (from Iraq, the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere) will gather in Geneva, Switzerland from June 16th to June 30th to demand economic justice for Iraqi citizens. The continued economic exploitation of Iraq’s resources is a form of violence which must be resisted. Those of us who are citizens of the U.S. and U.K. bear a special responsibility as it is our respective countries which created and held firm to the economic sanctions regime which devastated Iraq’s health care, education, water and electrical infrastructure.

The fast, beginning June 15th, will precede and continue to the conclusion of the final meeting of the United Nations Compensation Commission (U.N.C.C.), which takes place from June 28th to 30th. The U.N.C.C. determines which claims for war reparations relating to the occupation of Kuwait in 1990-1 are to be paid by Iraq and at what amount.