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International
A woman awaits a checkup at an International Rescue Committee clinic inside Syria. Syria's civil war has caused widespread damage to hospitals and clinics, with the result that access to medical care has been severely reduced. Through Syrian...
International Rescue Committee teams in Chad are trucking emergency water supplies into the country’s Tissi region to aid thousands of refugees who fled there in recent months to escape worsening violence in Darfur, Sudan. “It is a race...
by Peter Biro International Rescue Committee teams in Myanmar (also known as Burma) are preparing to assist thousands of people caught in the destructive path of Cyclone Mahasen as it moves from the Bay of Bengal across Bangladesh and Myanmar. The...
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A woman awaits a checkup at an International Rescue Committee clinic inside Syria. Syria's civil war has caused widespread damage to hospitals and clinics, with the result that access to medical care has been severely reduced. Through Syrian...
International Rescue Committee teams in Chad are trucking emergency water supplies into the country’s Tissi region to aid thousands of refugees who fled there in recent months to escape worsening violence in Darfur, Sudan. “It is a race...
by Peter Biro International Rescue Committee teams in Myanmar (also known as Burma) are preparing to assist thousands of people caught in the destructive path of Cyclone Mahasen as it moves from the Bay of Bengal across Bangladesh and Myanmar. The...
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By Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC KITGUM, Uganda — Cavine Akello was a 17-year-old high-school student when she became pregnant with her son, Rwot Okonya Billgram, whose name means “God has helped me” in the Luo language of Uganda. Cavine...
Meet two families in South Central Somalia whose lives and communities have been improved through International Rescue Committee projects helping drought and famine survivors make a living. The projects receive support from ECHO, European...
"I had a hard time finding time to sit down with Iris. “We’re working 24/7,” she’d remind me when I’d called. “We have to be here for these children. That’s our priority.” Iris Knuppel is...
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In the UK
On Friday 17 May 2013, talented young Syrian pianist Riyad Nicolas will be in concert with the London Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall, performing Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Piano Concerto Number Five and Symphony Number Three. The concert...
Sarah Zad, a 21 year old London-based singer songwriter, has launched a music project called Sing for Syria to raise awareness of the situation faced by Syrian refugees. We spoke to Sarah recently to find out more about the project. So Sarah,...
by Mairi MacRae My name is Mairi and I work for the IRC as a Women’s Protection and Empowerment Advocate. People often ask me what advocacy actually means or what I do all day as an ‘advocate’. In a nutshell, my job is to influence...
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by Mairi MacRae My name is Mairi and I work for the IRC as a Women’s Protection and Empowerment Advocate. People often ask me what advocacy actually means or what I do all day as an ‘advocate’. In a nutshell, my job is to influence...
The challenges faced by the 6 million refugees now living in towns and cities across the world are captured in a new multimedia photo exhibition and film project launched in London this past week. The project includes a series of photo-portraits and...
In the Picture: Urban refugees with Andrew McConnell Date: September 24, 2012 7:00 PM As urbanisation reshapes much of the world, refugees are increasingly moving to built up areas, including large towns and cities. Working with the International...
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Multimedia
International Rescue Committee teams in Chad are trucking emergency water supplies into the country’s Tissi region to aid thousands of refugees who fled there in recent months to escape worsening violence in Darfur, Sudan. “It is a race against time to get the supplies into Tissi and get critical services up and running before the...
Meet two families in South Central Somalia whose lives and communities have been improved through International Rescue Committee projects helping drought and famine survivors make a living. The projects receive support from ECHO, European Commission - Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection. Learn more about the IRC's projects in Somalia
David Miliband, former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, has been chosen by the Board of Directors to succeed George Rupp this September as President and CEO. New York, N.Y., March 27, 2013 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) today announced the appointment of David Miliband, 47, former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom,...
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Tens of thousands of refugees seeking safety in Kenya's capital Nairobi are confronted with police harassment, exposure to criminal violence and a severe lack of livelihoods opportunities says a new report by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG...
Unable to return home safely, uprooted Iraqis grow destitute and desperate; needs of displaced mount as global aid and interest wane, says IRC report Download the report: " A Tough Road Home: Uprooted Iraqis in Jordan, Syria and...
The International Rescue Committee, which carried out a series of mortality surveys in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2000 to 2007 in conjunction with some of the world's leading epidemiologists, strongly affirms its finding that an...
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Perfect storm of food crisis and conflict brewing in South Sudan
Between 2007 and 2010, Sir John Holmes – then UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs – visited Southern Sudan three times as it struggled toward independence amid problems of conflict, lack of capacity and food insecurity. Last week he returned to the world’s...
Major displacement crisis continues as U.S. troops leave Iraq
BBC News coverage of U.S. troops' withdrawal from Iraq in December last year, mentioning IRC's concerns about the displacement crisis still affecting millions of Iraqis.
In pictures: displacement, violence and the IRC's work in central Somalia
Picture gallery by IRC photographer Peter Biro published on the BBC News site, portraying the plight of the displaced and the ongoing violence in Central Somalia
Women raped while fleeing South Kordofan conflict
The International Rescue Committee has observed that alarming levels of sexual violence are being reported by women and girls who have fled conflict in Sudan's South Kordofan area.
"Violence against us was happening all the time. Raping was happening frequently," one refugee...
Nubian refugees subjected to widespread sexual violence while fleeing fighting in Sudan
Elizabeth Pender, the IRC’s expert on violence against women in emergency, interviewed on BBC Network Africa.
Hip-hop, SMS and Facebook: The new way of tackling violence against women in Côte d'Ivoire
The very word 'survivor' is used deliberately to dispel the passivity and hopelessness usually associated with the term 'victim'. This is a campaign where language matters. To shake deep-rooted assumptions about men's and women's role in relation to violence, the IRC is...
Sudan 'arming civilians' to fight South Kordofan rebels
Sudan is arming civilians in South Kordofan as fighting against rebels in the state that borders South Sudan intensifies, the BBC has found. Meanwhile, the International Rescue Committee says a new wave of refugees has fled South Kordofan to South Sudan.
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- @MishalHusainBBC Thank you for a fantastic job chairing last night's panel discussion. #refugeecrisis
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