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IRC Voice Danielle de Niese calls for an end to child labor
Header Image Photo: IRC Opera star Danielle de Niese is in Tanzania this week to visit the International Rescue Committee’s project to end child labor. “Children are the present and future of...
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A child’s right to read [PHOTOS]
Header Image Photo: Umer Farooq For World Literacy Day, the IRC shares photos from the Pakistan Reading Project, which aims to get 2.5 million children reading at grade level for the first time. Every...
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Yazidi refugees: A desperate struggle [VIDEO]
Header Image Paul Enkelaar/SV Since early June, tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled their homes from Islamic State militants who have violently targeted religious minorities in its rampage throughout...
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Today, thousands of Iraqi children missing out on school [INFOGRAPHIC]
Header Image Infographic: Tyler Jump Children in the Kurdistan region of Iraq face missing out on school. The Kurdistan Regional Government delayed the start of school by a month, to today. But the...
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Health workers take great risk in fight against Ebola
Header Image Photo: IRC Health workers on the front lines have borne the brunt of the crisis. More than 225 have contracted the virus and nearly 130 have died since the outbreak began in March. The IRC...
View ArticleJargon crimes in aid, #1: The unintentional linguistic comedy of the 'UN'
Jargon crimes in aid, #1: The UN Alyoscia D'Onofrio Somehow in those far-off heady days, when the world was a little less beset with acronyms and 140-character limitations, the creators of this august...
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'We have to make contingency plans for whatever military or other catastrophe...
Header Image David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour today about how humanitarian work is crucial in Syria and Iraq. As Obama pledges to...
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In Myanmar, former enemies join forces for health care
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Peter Biro After more than 60 years of conflict, Myanmar's nurses and medics from opposing sides are joining forces to address critical health concerns of the...
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Reflecting on a year of service to refugees [#AmeriCorps20]
Header Image Photo: IRC Helen Dekorne, an AmeriCorps Vista volunteer with the IRC in Baltimore, reflects on her year matching refugees who fled war and persecution with local volunteers who are helping...
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Singing for a cause: Opera singer Danielle de Niese visits IRC in Tanzania
Header Image Photo: Lucy Carrigan/IRC Acclaimed opera singer Danielle de Niese recently traveled to Tanzania to visit IRC child-protection programs in that country. The grand finale of Danielle’s visit...
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IRC welcomes UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Today the International Rescue Committee welcomed the deployment of 7,500 United Nations peacekeepers to the Central African Republic (CAR), where brutal sectarian...
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Breaking bread: Syrian refugee women and their husbands have the “difficult...
Header Image Photo: Sabine Choucair A group of 15 young Syrian women decided to have the "difficult talk" with their husbands through a social therapy workshop organized together with the IRC and...
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Back-to-school, but only for the lucky few
Back-to-school season, but only for the lucky few Header Image Photo: IRC Sarah Smith Public schools in Manhattan welcomed 150,000 children back to school this fall. But imagine if these children had...
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The IRC's new report reveals need for immediate action to protect Syrian...
Header Image Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC A new report from the IRC gives voice to thousands of Syrian women and girls who demand that international rhetoric be turned into action in protecting their...
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Syrian women and girls speak out—are we listening? [VIDEO]
Header Image Syrian women and girls speak out about their daily struggle to survive. Our new video brings to the daily barriers they face. Among the 3 million Syrians who have had to flee their homes,...
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The danger of venturing outside the home: Farah’s story
Header Image Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC Meredith Hutchison For many Syrian women and girls living as refugees, walking to school, the store, the latrine, or anywhere else exposes them to threats of...
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No refuge at home: Zaeemah’s story
Header Image Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC Meredith Hutchison Syrian women and adolescent girls shared with us their perception of increased physical and emotional violence in the home since fleeing...
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Trapped in a marriage: Sabeen’s story
Header Image Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC Meredith Hutchison Syrian refugees told the IRC that with dwindling options and scarce resources, many families are marrying off their daughters at a very...
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#AreWeListening to Syrian women? Updates from IRC report launch event [Storify]
Header Image Most of those displaced by the Syrian crisis are women and girls. A new IRC report reveals the challenges they face, and brings their voices to the world. Follow our Storify feature for...
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announces generous grants to the IRC
Citizenship and Immigration Services grants to IRC Header Image Photo: Eze Amos/IRC Three new grants from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will allow the IRC to help 2,700 refugees,...
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