Baghdad - Ms Mairead Corrigan-Maguire from Belfast was one of two Nobel Prize winners who called yesterday in Baghdad for the lifting of UN sanctions on Iraq and urged the world body to put an end to the "genocide" of Iraqi people.
"There is a silent genocide of the Iraqi people. There are children dying because they have no food. There are children malnutritioned. There are children who have no clean water," Ms Corrigan-Maguire said. "We challenge the United Nations to take its moral responsibility for the people of Iraq."
Ms Corrigan-Maguire is visiting Baghdad with Mr Adolfo Perez Esquivel to support the campaign for the lifting of UN economic sanctions imposed on Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, organisers of the visit, the New York-based humanitarian group Fellowship of Reconciliation, said.