Mozhgan Savabieasfahani

A March find­ing of ‘damn­ing ev­i­dence’ in the in­crease in can­cers and oth­er health is­sues was re­versed by a new re­port.

The in­def­i­nite post­pone­ment of the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion’s re­port is alarm­ing sci­en­tists and ac­tivists.

A 2012 World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion study on con­gen­i­tal birth de­fects in Iraq has still not been re­leased to the pub­lic.

Birth de­fects and can­cer rates are ris­ing in Iraq af­ter the 2003 in­va­sion, im­me­di­ate en­vi­ron­men­tal clean-up is need­ed.