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´´ Article 2 – The Ministry aims to look after the individuals who are covered by the provisions of this Law from among the following groups, assist them, provide them with the needed services in the various required areas, and seek to find solutions to correct their circumstances in accordance with the Law. First: Displaced Iraqis who were coerced or forced to flee their homes or left their usual place of residence inside Iraq to avoid the effects of armed conflict, circumstances of generalised violence, human rights violations, natural or man-made disasters, the arbitrary use of power by the authorities or due to development projects. Second: Displaced Iraqis who were deported from their homes or their usual place of residence to another location inside Iraq as a result of government policies, decisions or practices. Third: Iraqis returning home from abroad or internal displacement to reside in their former homes, their hometowns, or usual place of residence in Iraq or any other place chosen to reside in within Iraq after being subjected to forced displacement. Fourth: Displaced persons who have been deprived of their Iraqi nationality (denationalised) in accordance with the repealed Resolution No. 666 of 1980 or those who had to flee outside Iraq as a result of the former regime’s persecution and who did not secure asylum outside Iraq. Fifth: Refugees and asylum seekers residing outside Iraq due to forced migration, who received permanent residency there or acquired the nationality of a foreign country. Sixth: Palestinian refugees who were forced to leave their home country since 1948, resided in Iraqi legitimately, and whose asylum was accepted up till the time of this Law’s entry into force´´