ICBUW: the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons.With more than 80 member organizations worldwide, ICBUW campaigns for an explicit international treaty that would not only ban uranium weapons but also cover the decontamination decontamination /de·con·tam·i·na·tion/ (de?kon-tam-i-na´shun) the freeing of a person or object of some contaminating substance, e.g., war gas, radioactive material, etc. de·con·tam·i·na·tion n. of battlefields and rules on compensation for victims. In propagating a Draft Convention for a ban, ICBUW is attempting to emulate the successful example of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is a coalition of non-governmental organizations whose goal is to abolish the production and use of anti-personnel mines. . ICBUW's member organizations lobby at the national level, while ICBUW itself works with supranational Supranational An international organization, or union, whereby member states transcend national boundaries or interests to share in the decision-making and vote on issues pertaining to the wider grouping. bodies such as the European Parliament European Parliament, a branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU). It convenes on a monthly basis in Strasbourg, France; most meetings of the separate parliamentary committees are held in Brussels, Belgium, and its Secretariat is located in Luxembourg. and the United Nations. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Coalition has also compiled a reliable archive of information on DU and sponsors independent research into its effects. The Basra Epidemiological Study An Epidemiological study is a statistical study on human populations, which attempts to link human health effects to a specified cause. will attempt to quantify for the first time the scale of the cancer epidemic around Basra, southern Iraq, by the examination of pre- and post-1991 cancer records. The Iraqi Children's Tooth Project aims to assess the spread of DU across Iraq through analyzing children's milk teeth for uranium isotopes. www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/i/10.html--for a list of member organizations in various countries. |
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