The salary crisis raises rates of domestic violence in Kurdistan by 13 percent

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[size=52]The salary crisis raises rates of domestic violence in Kurdistan by 13 percent[/size]

[size=45]The researcher in social and academic affairs at Sulaymaniyah University, Rikut Abdul Rahman, said yesterday, Sunday, that the economic crisis has greatly affected the situation in the region. The Federal Council of Ministers decided during its thirty-eighth regular session, headed by Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, on Sunday (September 17, 2023),[/size]
[size=45]Lending the Kurdistan Regional Government more than two trillion dinars, provided that it is repaid in three installments of (700) billion dinars before taking its entitlement from the budget for the year 2024. Abdul Rahman says, “The economic crisis affected the cohesion of Kurdish society, led to an increase in divorce cases and increased rates of domestic violence.” .[/size]
[size=45]He believes that “due to the delay in disbursing salaries and the economic crisis, divorce cases have increased by 13% over previous years, and the rates of domestic violence have increased according to the statistics of various organizations, in addition to the presence of a reluctance to marry among Kurdish youth, since the requirements of life are high, and there is no financial liquidity.” Because of the salary crisis.”[/size]
[size=45]The delay in salaries in the Kurdistan region and the strike of health personnel there caused the death of two people yesterday, Saturday (September 23, 2023), including a child no more than two months old. According to a local source, “A person named (K, M, A), whose profession is a worker, lives in the Shahrazur district of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. He was involved in a traffic accident on the Sulaymaniyah-Zaryan road, and after suffering serious injuries, he was transferred to (Martyr Raouf Bek) Hospital in the Shahrazur district.”[/size]
[size=45]He added: “But due to the strike of doctors and nurses from working hours in the aforementioned hospital, he was transported by a regular car to Shar Hospital in Sulaymaniyah, but he died on the way.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that “also due to the strike of health personnel from work in Sayed Sadiq district, a two-month-old child died.”[/size]
[size=45]On Wednesday (September 20, 2023), the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, Masrour Barzani, directed the distribution of July salaries without delay upon the arrival of the first batch of Baghdad’s loan amounting to 700 billion dinars.[/size]
[size=45]On Monday (September 18, 2023), a source in the Ministry of Finance of the Kurdistan Regional Government revealed the mechanism for distributing employee salaries in the region.[/size]
[size=45]The source said, “The federal government will finance the salaries of employees in the Kurdistan region in three installments in the amount of two trillion and 100 billion dinars, and in the amount of 700 billion dinars for each month.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "The federal government will send the salaries for September after releasing the salaries of employees in other Iraqi provinces, but employees in the region have not received their salaries for July and August yet."[/size]
[size=45]The source indicated, “After receiving the amount of 700 billion dinars, the Ministry of Finance will distribute one salary, which is for the month of July, and next month it will distribute the salary for the month of August, and then the process will continue successively.”[/size]
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