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Hania Mufti, London Director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch, and Peter Bouckaert, emergencies researcher
for Human Rights Watch wrote this report. The information included in the
report is based on multiple research trips to Northern Iraq during 2003 and
2004. Additional assistance was provided by Ali Uthman, research assistant.
This report was edited by Joe Stork, Washington Director for the Middle East and North Africa Division. Specialist review was done by Diane Goodman,
Refugee Policy Director for Human Rights Watch. Additional review was done by
Wilder Tayler, legal and policy director of Human Rights Watch and Widney Brown, deputy program director. John Emerson created the map of Northern Iraq included
in the report. Leila Hull, associate for the Middle East and North Africa
division, and Andrea Holley, manager of outreach and publications, prepared
this report for production. Additional production assistance was provided by
Fitzroy Hepkins, mail manager, and Jagdish Parikh, online communications
content coordinator.
Human Rights Watch would also like to thank the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Stichting
Vluchteling, ACT Netherlands, NOVIB, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Oak Foundation, Kerkinactie,
the Ruth McLean Bowers Foundation, and the many individuals who
contributed to Human Rights Watch’s Iraq emergency fund.
