This year, we welcome World Refugee Day at a time when human society is facing a difficult and dangerous period. International wars, economic and financial crises, increased discrimination, destruction, unemployment and poverty have forced a large part of the world’s population to migrate and be displaced.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of refugees worldwide have exceeded 122 million in 2024.
After the attacks of ISIS terrorists and the declaration of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the influx of refugees from outside Iraq and even internally displaced people to the Kurdistan Region began in 2013 and about two million people moved to the Kurdistan Region.
Barzani Charity Foundation has since embraced it and devoted all its efforts to serving refugees and later took over the management of 30 camps in the Kurdistan Region.
The current statistics of IDPs inside and outside the camps in the Kurdistan Region are as follows:
The number of IDPs and refugees living in the provinces (Duhok, Erbil, Garmian, Nineveh) is 186,877 people. Of these, 17,642 are refugees and 21,759 are displaced persons living in camps. Outside the camps, 582,501 people were settled in the provinces of Duhok, Erbil and Sulaimani, while 169,447 Western Kurdish refugees were settled outside the camps.
Barzani Charity Foundation has always advocated the voluntary return of refugees and displaced persons, and whenever any number of them voluntarily returned to their homeland, it has come to their aid and provided all facilities. On World Refugee Day, the Foundation once again called on the international community and donor countries to support refugees.
