ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi government has allocated monthly salaries to over 2,400 Yazidi women and girls who survived Islamic State (ISIS) captivity, under the Yazidi Survivors Law.
Sarab Ilias, head of the Yazidis affairs office at the Iraqi ministry of labor and social affairs, told Rudaw on Saturday that the beneficiaries are each receiving 800,000 Iraqi dinars (nearly $610) per month.
Sarab added that a total of “2,481 Yazidi Kurdish women and girls have been granted salaries.”
She added that the payments are being issued in accordance with a law passed by the Iraqi parliament in 2021 to provide financial compensation and support to Yazidi women rescued from ISIS.
“These Yazidi Kurdish women and girls have been granted these salaries under Law No. 8, the Yazidi Female Survivors Law,” Ilias stated, noting that only a limited number of eligible survivors are still awaiting completion of their procedures.
According to Ilias, the ministry has taken steps to ensure that survivors living abroad are not excluded from the process.
“Some survivors residing abroad, such as in Germany and Sweden, are being interviewed online to facilitate the allocation of their salaries,” she said.
Regardless of their current place of residence, any Yazidi woman or girl who survived ISIS abduction is eligible to submit an application under the law.