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Critical humanitarian and human rights responses
72.
The Special Rapporteur also recommends that the Government of Iraq:
(a)
Ensure appropriate and secure shelter and housing options for internally
displaced persons and returnees, including the upgrading of emergency housing facilities,
particularly for long-term internally displaced persons;
(b)
Ensure access of displaced households to food distribution programmes,
including the universal public distribution system of Iraq, combined with targeted cash
assistance programmes to tackle food insecurity and poverty;
(c)
Implement the guidelines of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the
inclusion of disabilities in humanitarian action, 24 and ensure that policies and
programmes addressing internal displacement are disability-inclusive;
(d)
Ensure that internally displaced persons inside and outside camp settings
have, regardless of their documentation status, access to health-care services, including
specialized sexual and reproductive health services for survivors of sexual and genderbased violence, and maternal and infant care;
(e)
Ensure that internally displaced persons and returnees have access to
mental health and psychosocial support services to help them with the challenges of living
in displacement, and provide specialized support for traumatized children and survivors
of sexual and gender-based violence, including members of ethnic and religious
minorities;
(f)
Issue directives to all governors and camp management that internally
displaced persons who have left a camp must be readmitted if they return to the camp,
and registered for support and assistance;
(g)
Grant rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian assistance to
internally displaced persons and returnees in need, in accordance with Principle 25 of the
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement by significantly simplifying the process for
obtaining access letters and ensuring that security measures do not adversely hinder the
work of humanitarian actors, including international organizations and nongovernmental organizations;
(h)
Facilitate access to civil documentation, including birth certificates for all
internally displaced persons, by issuing documents in their area of displacement and
reducing administrative requirements; and continue and expand initiatives for the
provision of civil documentation to displaced populations through mobile units;
(i)
Delink the security clearance requirement from the provision of civil
documentation, and ensure that internally displaced persons and their attorneys have
access to civil registries and courts without discrimination;
(j)
Ensure that future camp consolidations or closures are based exclusively on
returns or resettlement that are voluntary, safe and dignified, respecting the right of
internally displaced persons to decide on their preferred durable solutions; any such
closures and consolidations should be decided with the Governorate Returns Committee
through a consultative evidence-based process, taking into account data on conditions in
the areas of origin and involving humanitarian partners, camp management and camp
populations, and with sufficient notice to all; returns should be coordinated with
governorates of origin so that returnees receive adequate support;
(k)
Maintain the civilian and humanitarian character of camps, taking
measures to enforce the prohibition on the presence of armed actors in camps;
(l)
Support ethnic and religious minorities in achieving durable solutions for
their particular situation by promoting both intercommunal and intracommunal
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