Compensation for returning the Iraqi detainees …

Erbil, region of the Kurdistan: compensation for the internal displaced persons (internal displaced) who return to their homes has stopped due to the lack of funds, which takes fewer people who leave the camps in the Kurdistan region, the spokesman of the Iraqi migration ministry said on Saturday.

“This year’s budget allocations have not yet been approved by the Iraqi Parliament, so we do not have the necessary funds to compensate for displaced persons who return,” said Ali Abbas, and added that the return of displaced persons “has stopped a bit.”

The Iraqi government last year said it would give four million dinares to each family that returns, one of several measures to encourage people to leave the camps. Other incentives include providing job opportunities in public and private sectors, providing monthly social security stipes for low -income and needy people, and offering interest -free bank loans.

However, many Yazidi who have returned to Shingal have not received the four million promised dinares (around $ 3,050), said Shingal district to Rudow in January.

More than one million Iraqis are internally displaced and around 109,000 of them live in 21 camps in the Kurdistan region, according to February data from the United Nations Refugee Agency.

In 2024, “more than 10,000 displaced families, which are more than 100,000 people, have returned to their homes in Iraq,” Abbas told Rudow in December.

Many of the camps in the Kurdistan region suffer from a lack of funds, since the humanitarian approach has changed the emergency response to development and stabilization.

Human rights defenders have expressed concern about Iraq’s impulse to close the camps, emphasizing that all returns must be safe, volunteer and worthy.

Despite Baghdad’s incentives, many families are reluctant to leave the camps due to continuous violence in the areas of their home, the lack of reconstruction after the destruction of their homes and little on the path of basic services. Some who voluntarily abandoned the camps have been forced to return.