MERIP Media Resource
List, September 22, 2005
AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS
on the following topic:
- Lobbying for Iraqi debt
relief at the IMF and World Bank meetings, September 23-24
Lawyers from Jubilee Iraq will
be in Washington to push for Iraqi debt relief at the IMF
and World Bank meetings. Jubilee
Iraq is a trans-national campaign working to eliminate
the burdens of the deposed Iraqi regime's debts upon the Iraqi
people.
HAIDER
HAMOUDI
Haider Hamoudi is currently
an associate at the Columbia University Law School. His principal
areas of research are commercial and Islamic law. Hamoudi
spent the past two years in Iraq as a legal specialist on
a USAID-sponsored Iraqi law school reform project. In addition,
from the winter of 2003 through the spring of 2004, Hamoudi
served as a legal adviser to the finance committee of the
Iraqi Governing Council. As a representative of Jubilee Iraq
he said today: "Our position is that the vast majority
of debts incurred by Iraq are odious, taken unilaterally by
a dictatorial regime to supply funds for its war efforts and
to suppress the Iraqi people. The current approach toward
dealing with these debts, which involves 80 percent debt forgiveness
conditioned on austere monetary and fiscal measures imposed
by the IMF, is onerous and potentially disastrous for two
reasons. First, it still leaves Iraq with a crushing burden
of debt, as even 20 percent of Iraq's current obligations
is far more than Iraq would be able to service in the short
to medium term. Second, the IMF measures require Iraq to take
drastic measures to reduce its fuel and food subsidies almost
immediately, which would create severe hardship for the Iraqi
people, who have seen no shortage of hardship in the past
few years."
MAYSA
IBRAHIM
Maysa Ibrahim, an associate
with White & Case, recently assisted the United Nations
Assistance Mission to Iraq as a senior advisor of the Office
of Constitutional Support. As a consultant to Adam Smith International
in 2004, she advised the Iraqi executive on reform of the
Iraqi civil service. She is a board member of Medical Aid
for Iraqi Children and Jubilee Iraq.
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