Don’t forget the markets! How can we make markets a core part of the...
Don’t forget the markets! How can we make markets a core part of the humanitarian business? Radha Rajkotia Over the last three days, 50 representatives from the humanitarian and financial sectors got...
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This Week's Voices: April 11, 2014
This Week's Voices: April 11, 2014 Header Image Photo: IRC This Week's Voices is a roundup of recent eyewitness reports and commentary by IRC experts and others. This week: reflecting on the lessons...
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The IRC in 30 seconds [Video]
Header Image At work in more than 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, the IRC helps millions of people each year to survive and rebuild their lives. Watch our new video to learn how we help. More than 45...
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South Sudan Crisis: Displaced and starving, families rely on water lilies to...
South Sudan Crisis: Survival on the brink Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Photo Essay Slideshow: Visit a South Sudan town devastated by conflict and hunger After three years of fragile peace,...
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Getting the big picture and the little picture: listening to Syrian refugees
Nightmares and dreams of Syrian refugees Header Image Photo: Emmanuel d'Harcourt/International Rescue Committee Emmanuel d'Harcourt What’s difficult when it comes to understanding conflict in Syria is...
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From the Frontlines: How the IRC responds to emergencies [VIDEO]
From the frontlines of emergency response Header Image When catastrophe strikes, the IRC’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit is poised to deliver rapid, lifesaving support. Watch this video to...
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Mother Support Groups improve the health of families in rural Myanmar
Header Image Photo: Dr. Hein Aung Naing, IRC health training officer As the sun sets behind the steep mountains rising above this small community, a group of women gather in a small, barely lit hut....
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Professor and students offer free tax help for refugees
Professor and students offer free tax help for refugees Header Image Photo: International Rescue Committee Jordan Helton The looming date of Tax Day is cause for anxiety and procrastination for many...
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Women in Congo: Daring to Defy
Daring to Defy Header Image Photos by: Lynsey Addario Acclaimed photojournalist Lynsey Addario shows through photos and video how women in Congo are defying the odds to become powerful agents for...
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South Sudan Crisis: Displaced and starving Photo Essay Slideshow: Visit a South Sudan town devastated by conflict and hunger
View ArticleHumanitarian data revolution?
Humanitarian data revolution? Jeannie Annan Several recent reports have pointed out that the humanitarian sector has insufficient evidence and that makes decisions based on poor information. The IRC's...
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This Week's Voices: April 18, 2014
This Week's Voices: April 18, 2014 Header Image Photo: Emmanuel d'Harcourt/International Rescue Committee This Week's Voices is a roundup of recent eyewitness reports and commentary by IRC experts and...
View ArticleIRC mourns the loss of two staff members killed in South Sudan
IRC mourns loss of South Sudan staff IRC confirms with great sadness that two South Sudanese members of our staff were killed last Thursday in the horrific attack on a U.N. base in the town of Bor,...
View ArticleNot statistically significant— So what?
Humanitarian aid: Building an evidence base for effective programming Heidi Lehmann Aid organizations need to build an evidence base about what effective programming looks like in humanitarian...
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Latest updates from South Sudan
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC In five months of violence nearly 1 million people have been displaced within South Sudan. 300,000 have been made refugees in neighboring countries. Get updates from...
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It's World Immunization Week
Header Image It's World Immunization Week: In 2013 alone, the IRC vaccinated over 276,000 children against disease. Follow @theIRC on Twitter to get more facts, figures and photos from our work around...
View ArticleTime to read 'Time to Listen', time to change: What would a demand-driven aid...
Time to read 'Time to Listen' Alyoscia D'Onofrio The IRC's Alyoscia D'Onofrio recently read "Time to Listen," a book that paints a picture of gratitude from aid recipients for acts of saving lives and...
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Quoted: Why the world's newest nation could become the bloodiest [CNN Video]
Header Image Photo: CNN IRC president David Miliband speaks with CNN’s Paula Newton about the widespread violence in South Sudan, a week after rebels slaughtered at least 400 people in the town of...
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Photo Share: World Malaria Day
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC On this World Malaria Day (Apr. 25), a photo share from Tham Hin, an isolated refugee camp that straddles the Myanmar border in western Thailand. The IRC is the...
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This Week's Voices: April 25, 2014
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC This Week's Voices is a roundup of recent eyewitness reports and commentary by IRC experts and others. This week: IRC staff members mourn the loss of two colleagues...
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