The ICRC in Iraq

The ICRC has been in Iraq since 1980, addressing the consequences of violence and conflict. It visits detainees and enables them to maintain contact with their families, helps vulnerable groups, improves access to water and health care and supports the authorities’ efforts to clarify the fate of people missing from earlier conflicts.

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Facts and Figures

In 2012, the ICRC:

visited detainees held by the Iraqi central authorities and Kurdish regional authorities in 109 places of detention;
renovated exercise areas, a clinic and sanitary installations in 6 places of detention, improving the living conditions of 3,180 detainees;
gave financial support to almost 4,000 women heading a household to help them register for state welfare allowance;
provided agricultural livelihood support to over 7,000 households;
improved access to clean water for 1.4 million residents and almost 25,000 internally displaced people or returnees;
supplied essential household items, hygiene requisites and/or food to 36,000 displaced people, returnees, vulnerable residents and to 1,200 refugees from Syria in nine governorates;
helped 600 female heads of household and 200 people with disabilities to launch small businesses;
provided physical rehabilitation services to over 33,000 people;
supported 13 primary health care centres across Iraq, for the benefit of 400,000 people;
facilitated five joint Iraq-Iran missions, which made it possible to recover and repatriate the remains of hundreds of soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 war.