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Fri, 23/03/2012 - 16:16
Six out of every 10 women who seek assistance from the International Rescue Committee in West Africa do so because of domestic violence. Journalist and IRC Overseer Susan Dentzer is there as a member of an IRC commission that is working to raise...
Fri, 23/03/2012 - 15:28
Six out of every 10 women who seek assistance from the International Rescue Committee in West Africa do so because of domestic violence. Journalist and IRC Overseer Susan Dentzer is there as a member of an IRC commission that is working to...
Thu, 22/03/2012 - 16:20
Article: Susan Dentzer, Photo: Peter Biro/The IRC
Journalist and International Rescue Committee (IRC) Overseer Susan Dentzer is visiting Liberia and Sierra Leone this week as a member of the IRC Commission on Domestic Violence. Dentzer is the editor...
Tue, 20/03/2012 - 15:20
Article: Susan Dentzer
Journalist and International Rescue Committee (IRC) Overseer Susan Dentzer visited Liberia and Sierra Leone this past week as a member of the IRC Commission on Domestic Violence. Dentzer is the editor-in-chief of Health...
Tue, 20/03/2012 - 10:54
AMMAN, Jordan - Their living conditions are dire. Nine members of a Syrian family I met last week are packed into just two rooms. While they are grateful to the Jordanian family who opened their home to them in the border city of Ramtha, it’s...
Zimbabwe: Creating potentially sustainable tabasco chilli farming through Nyakomba irrigation scheme
Fri, 16/03/2012 - 15:36
Photography: Paolo Cernuschi/The IRC
The IRC, in partnership with Better Agriculture and Agritex - the national extension service, and through funding provided by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), has brought about a potentially...
Tue, 13/03/2012 - 15:23
Photo and article by: Christine Betters/The IRC
The first time I travelled to the north of Uganda as the International Rescue Committee’s country director, I attended a meeting of a village saving and loans association. These are small groups...
Mon, 12/03/2012 - 14:19
Story and Photography By Peter Biro
The city of Rikuzentakata didn’t stand a chance. On March 11, 2011, a powerful tsunami generated by the largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history literally wiped it from the map. The disaster...
Mon, 12/03/2012 - 09:21
The sight of women turning up in numbers to watch their husbands and boyfriends play an intense game of soccer is a very unusual one in Gbalahun, a village in Sierra Leone’s Kailahun District, especially when the two sides come from...
Thu, 08/03/2012 - 15:33
The International Rescue Committee celebrates International Women's Day on March 8th and works every day to protect and empower women across the globe.
This film was produced by our Senior Policy & Advocacy Officer Euan Robinson while in...