YJ (Non-Kurdish speakers in KAA) Iraq CG

'It remains the case that the respondent proposes to return the appellant to Iraq as a failed asylum seeker and the objective evidence shows that he would inevitably face risk of detention and consequently ill-treatment for this reason alone were he to be returned to any part of Iraq under the control of the government of Saddam Hussein.'

'40% of internally displaced persons in the region under Kurdish administrant live in settlements with standards of water and electricity supplies, sanitation, drainage and road access that were below average for the area. Access to food, education and health care were however acceptable. Due to the increasing number of internally displaced in the north, several international observers reported in December 2000 that newcomers were becoming less welcome by local authorities.'

'The situation of IDP is of great concern in Northern Iraq. Most of them including widows and children live under precarious conditions in public buildings and provisional shelter, just a few miles south, Sulaymaniyya, in makeshift tents, with open pits for waste disposal, displaced Kurdish families or fractions of family survive on UN rations.'