After an extraordinary Council, the government of Adel Abdel Mahdi announced Sunday, October 6, a series of social measures to try to calm the protests that have made a hundred deaths in less than a week in Iraq .

The decree includes 17 measures, ranging from housing assistance to pension benefits to unemployed youth.

The Prime Minister also announced the construction of 100,000 homes, while in September local authorities in several parts of the country began the destruction of homes in informal settlements, where three million Iraqis who have built without permission on state land.

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In addition, Baghdad ordered the installation of halls for street vendors, in an attempt to create jobs, especially among young people, one in four of whom are unemployed in Iraq.

Youth unemployment is the first claim of the protest launched Tuesday and is a sensitive issue in Iraq, where a young person immolated himself in September in Kout (south) after being confiscated his street vendor cart.

Dedomagement for the families of the victims

Authorities, accusing "saboteurs" and "unidentified gunmen" infiltrated shooting at protesters and police, have announced that they have inscribed the people killed in the violence on the "martyrs" list, thus opening rights to compensation for their loved ones.

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Since Tuesday, according to the Government Human Rights Commission, at least 99 people have been killed and some 4,000 wounded in a movement demanding jobs, services and the fight against corruption.

During the violence, seats of different political parties were ransacked and set on fire, while the Iraqis regularly conspired against their ruling class. According to Transparency International, Iraq is the 12th most corrupt country in the world.

On Saturday, the Speaker of Parliament, Mohammed al-Halboussi, proposed a series of reforms for social justice, but the Assembly failed to meet for lack of a quorum because of the boycott of several lists.

With AFP