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May 31, 2010http://www.alternet.org/story/147021/The alarming spread of illegal squatter settlements has aid groups fearful
of a looming social crisis, one which a senior United Nations official
considers "the greatest humanitarian problem facing Iraq."
Recent reports from two international agencies found that of Iraq's 1.5
million internally displaced people, or IDPs, at least 500,000 have been
forced to dwell in squalid squatter camps without access to health care or
public services.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, has recorded a sharp
increase in squatters since 2009, and activists are demanding the United
States and UN stem the problem before it surges out of control.
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