It is hurricane season in Haiti and a country still struggling to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake faces the threat of a new disaster. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is working to reduce the risk of flooding and hurricane damage for the nearly 100,000 earthquake survivors... More >
Dadaab, Kenya - On the outskirts of Hagadera, a refugee camp near the town of Dadaab, Somali women and their families are gathered, desperately seeking assistance after fleeing a famine and the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa region in six decades.
Yesterday I wrote about Margot Wallström's recent meeting with aid agencies including the International Rescue Committee. Wallström is the UN's first ever Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, tasked with leading the UN’s efforts... More >
Today, International Women's Day, Elisabeth Roesch, the International Rescue Committee's gender-based violence advocacy officer, writes about Margot Wallström's recent meeting with aid agencies... More >
In 2005, a landmark peace accord ended decades of civil war between semi-autonomous Southern Sudan and the northern-based Sudanese government. The conflict killed more than two million people and displaced millions more. Now political tensions are again rising ahead of a referendum scheduled for... More >
The International Rescue Committee express its deep sorrow at the tragic loss that the International Assistance Mission has suffered as a result of the cowardly murder of its Nuristan Eye Camp team.
The attack on the team was an attack on the entire humanitarian community and indeed on the men,... More >
Saturday 25 April is World Health Day. In the story below Julia Peppiatt discusses the challenges facing IRC staff fighting HIV/AIDS in northern Uganda.
The good news is that the number of people in low and middle-income countries receiving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for... More >
