A refugee said "I cannot go back to my country because of the following points: 1. Imprisonment and Persecution 2. Torture and punishment 3. Electric torture 4. Beating with the stick on the feet (corporal punishment) 5. threatening me to be killed 6. Lack of human rights organizations which can lobby against human rights violation in the country. 7. Threatening to abuse my family members. 8. Demolition of my house. Due to all that I can’t go back".

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Nov 24, 2010

Who can Attend and Vote at The AGM

1.All members may attend a general meeting provided that the current membership fee has been paid in advance of the meeting. All affiliates may send one delegate to a general meeting provided that the current affiliation fee has been paid in advance of the meeting.
2.All members and delegates have one vote each at a general meeting.
3.A decision of a general meeting of the IAWM is binding on the SC and overrides any previous decisions. This constitution may only be amended by a general meeting. However, amendments to this constitution may be made by the next quarterly delegate meeting held after the general meeting of 08 May 2004, which adopted this constitution.
4.A steering committee shall be elected at each AGM.
5.Draft resolutions and nominations for the steering committee should be submitted to the Secretary at least 14 days beforehand. The secretary shall publish draft resolutions at least 7 days beforehand.


Submitting Resolutions
Resolutions may be submitted in the following ways:

1.By E-mail:- To the secretary via e-mail info@irishantiwar.org

2.By Post:- Send the resolutions to The Irish Anti-War Movement, PO Box 9260 Dublin 1.

Nov 9, 2010

Mozzam Begg - My Imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay, Bagram & Kandahar


Moazzam Begg is an ordinary man who has endured an extraordinary fate, he was imprisoned in Khadahar, Bagram airbase (Afganistan) & the worlds most infamous prison Guantanamo Bay where he was abused & tortured mercilessly for a crime he never committed and released without charges by the USA without any apology. Listen to his story next week as he travels for the 1st time across Ireland.






Speaker Details:


Galway - 6pm Monday 8th November, 6pm @ Martin Ryan Institute Annex Lecture theatre 201, NUIG
2nd speaker Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh (Lecturer & LLM Director Irish Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, NUIG)


Cork - Tuesday 9th November, 6pm @ Room C_LL_4 (392) - Boole 4, UCC


Dublin - Wednesday 10th November, 7pm @ Astra Hall, Students Centre, UCD


Dublin - Thursday 11th November, 7pm @ Johnathan Swift Lecture Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin


2nd Speaker @ UCD & TCD (TBC): Richard Boyd Barrett [Councillor of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown, Chair Irish Anti-War Movement]

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