Report

The Long Road Home

the Danish Refugee Council, the International Rescue Committee and the Norwegian Refugee Council|Published 28. Feb 2018
Iraq Internal displacement Return
Three years of conflict with the so called Islamic State displaced 5.8 million people in Iraq. By the end of 2017, 3.3 million people had returned home.

Many of those who remain displaced are unable to return for many reasons – a lack of services in their place of origin, threats of violence, destruction of their homes or contamination by unexploded ordinances.

In February 2018, the Danish Refugee Council, the International Rescue Committee and the Norwegian Refugee Council released a report about returns in Anbar governorate - the location of the first wave of displacement during the conflict and, to date, the largest number of returns.