| Description | Folder of presscuttings on various aspects of social welfare in Iraq, including social security, pensions, trade unions and the environment. A Baghdad Observer article (28 March 1989) reports on the abrogation of fourteen 'emergency decrees' that had been in force during the First Gulf War, there are features on social security benefits, provision for disabled children, the Social Welfare Law (1980), an explanation of the divisions and structures of the pension and social security system, reports of a decline in the crime rate (1989), details of the Eighth Conference of the General Federation of Trade Unions (1987) and Trade Union activities in 1984, as well as two features on pollution and environmental protection. |