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"South Sudan is at tipping point"
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC The IRC is calling on the world not to give up on South Sudan but to make every effort to ensure that the fighting stops. "Without immediate, high level engagement to...
View ArticleAspiring to be a step ahead of the game
Aspiring to be a step ahead of the game In a world of competition, preparation and understanding bring advantage and financial rewards. Some of the most successful companies are those that plan for...
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Inside the Syrian crisis: Nasra and Ahmad, Zaatari refugee camp [Video]
Header Image Photo: IRC Nasra is one of more than 100,000 Syrian refugees living in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. She lives in a caravan with her husband, Ahmad. This is Nasra and Ahmad's story....
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Photo Share: Fleeing home, Central African Republic
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC An elderly Muslim man flees his home today in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Photo by the IRC's Peter Biro, who is covering the humanitarian...
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3 Rescue Gifts that moms will love
Header Image Don’t forget – Mother’s Day is May 11! Order Rescue Gifts by our May 1 deadline to send the special moms in your life a beautiful printed card in time for Mother’s Day. Don’t forget –...
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Yemen: A forgotten crisis in the Arab world's poorest country
Header Image Photo: Rebecca Blum/IRC 14.7 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian aid, hundreds of thousands of them driven from their homes by violence. "These figures are terrifying,"...
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Welcome, Joshua Redman -- new IRC Voice
Header Image We are excited and proud to officially announce that Joshua Redman, world-renowned jazz musician and composer, will join forces with the IRC and become one of our IRC Voices. We are...
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On this Day: 1975 - the fall of Saigon [Video]
Header Image Photo: Robert P. DeVecchi/IRC On April 30, 1975, the army of North Vietnam rolled into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The day, celebrated in Vietnam today as Reunification Day,...
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How safe spaces for learning have improved the lives of Palestinian children
Header Image Photo: Ned Colt/IRC This April, the International Rescue Committee celebrates the successful completion of nearly three years of educational programming in the West Bank of the Palestinian...
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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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‘The world must tell our leaders to stop this fighting’
Header Image Photo: Jennate Eoomkham Three years after achieving peace and independence, South Sudan is once again facing civil war. “My family was asleep in our house when I heard gunfire,” recalled...
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Special feature: South Sudan on the edge of starvation
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC View a photo essay and video by the IRC’s Peter Biro of near famine conditions in Ganyiel, a town in northern Unity State, where thousands of people have fled the...
View ArticleDavid Miliband on the South Sudan conflict [PBS NewsHour Video]
More than a million people have fled to escape a bloody conflict in South Sudan. Jeffrey Brown of NewsHour discussed the crisis with IRC president David Miliband as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Dilemmas in dealing with the peacekeepers
South Sudan: Dilemmas in dealing with the peacekeepers Melanie Teff Relationships between UN peacekeeping missions and humanitarian agencies are rarely totally harmonious, since they are present for...
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A proud and brave mother's story from South Sudan
Header Image Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC JUBA, South Sudan Like all mothers, 30-year-old Zebib Rahman is excited to be holding her newborn daughter, Subra, in her arms. She is tiny, swaddled in pink...
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Conflict in South Sudan [Video]
Header Image One million people have fled the fighting that erupted in South Sudan last December. Ezekiel Khor, a teacher from Bor, was one of them. "The only alternative was to cross the river,"...
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#BringBackOurGirls: Responding to the clarion call
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Twice a refugee
Twice a refugee Header Image Photo: Lizzy Ongoro/IRC The IRC's Lizzy Ongoro writes about the plight of a South Sudanese family taking refuge in Kenya a second time as the ongoing political stalemate...
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The equity smell test: Is USAID going to the right places?
The equity smell test: Is USAID going to the right places? Header ImageEmmanuel d'Harcourt USAID has contributed more than $7 billion to global health programs. But U.S. citizens, global health...
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She's First: Refugee moms help each other adjust to life in a new country
Header Image Photo: Emily Sernaker/IRC SILVER SPRING, Md. IRC employment specialist Jaclyn Vaseleck had success helping newly arrived female refugees find their first jobs in the United States, but she...
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