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IRC health worker in Sierra Leone: 'I want to tell them that our friends have...
Header Image Photo: Katherine Haggans/IRC For the IRC staff in Sierra Leone, the Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 3,000 people, is personal, affecting their friends, their neighbors, and...
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The Lost Boys of Sudan
Lost Boys of Sudan Header Image Photo: IRC In 1987, civil war drove some 20,000 young boys from their families and villages in southern Sudan. They walked more than a thousand miles, half of them...
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World Teacher's Day: path to quality education starts with a teacher
Header Image Photo: Shahzad A. Fayyaz In Pakistan, the IRC and its partners are working to hone the instruction skills of thousands of reading teachers. Photo: Shahzad A. Fayyaz The world still needs...
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Humanitarian situation deteriorates as thousands more Nigerians flee violence
Header Image Photo: Matias Meier/IRC The situation in Nigeria continues to worsen as new waves of violence wrack northern Adamawa and Borno states. More than 200,000 people have fled from their homes...
View ArticlePreparing for Ebola: The IRC scales up efforts in southeast Liberia
Anna Kim The risk of Ebola reaching the Grand Gedeh and Maryland counties in Liberia remains high and imminent. The IRC's Dr. Abiy Mulugeta Abebe is leading the response. Dr. Abiy Mulugeta Abebe opened...
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Pakistan earthquake response, 2005 [Crisis in Focus]
Pakistan earthquake, 2005 Header Image Photo: Scott Anger/IRC Arriving on the scene within hours of a powerful earthquake that struck Pakistan on October 8, 2005, IRC emergency teams aided 230,000...
View ArticleEbola crisis response: Latest updates from the front lines
The IRC has been at the forefront of the fight to combat the spread of the deadly Ebola virus since the first cases were diagnosed in Liberia and Sierra Leone in March. Get Ebola crisis updates and...
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Ebola Crisis: Local community leaders key to fighting Ebola, says IRC...
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC IRC president David Miliband is visiting the West Africa region today to meet with IRC staff and community leaders and to encourage aid agencies to embrace effective...
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Ebola Crisis: How the IRC is saving lives
Header Image Photo: IRC Five people are infected with Ebola every hour. The IRC has been working with communities to combat the spread of the deadly virus from the beginning of the crisis. Learn how we...
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Rhetoric. Reality. But where’s the Reason? Reflections on ALNAP’s 2014 study...
Rhetoric. Reality. But where’s the Reason? Alyoscia D'Onofrio This week ALNAP published its 2014 study on putting affected people at the centre of humanitarian action. The report is a good overview of...
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Heavy downpour affects 40,000 displaced South Sudanese in Bentiu
Header Image Photo: Suleiman Adan Abdullah/IRC Sophia Jones An early October heavy rain caused widespread flooding and affected 40,000 displaced South Sudanese seeking shelter at U.N. bases for the...
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Silenced Minds: Unshackling people with mental Illness at Kakuma
Header Image Photo: Lizzy Ongoro/IRC Today the IRC in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya will mark Mental Health Week, an opportunity to openly discuss mental health and raise awareness. By Lizzy Ongororead...
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Nobel Peace Prize 2014 goes to children's rights advocates Malala Yousafzai...
Header Image Photo: Shahzad A. Fayyaz/IRC Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai and Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 today for their dedication...
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Day of the Girl: A vision of hope
Header Image Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC The IRC's Vision Not Victim Project enabled adolescent girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo to envision a positive future for themselves, and by sharing...
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In South Sudan, a safe place for girls to dream of their futures
Header Image Photo: Chanell Daniels/IRC To mark the Day of the Girl, adolescent girls in South Sudan share how IRC centers give them safety, hope and an opportunity to build better futures in a country...
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#BringBackOurGirls, six months on
Header Image Photo: Matias Meier/IRC Six months after the abduction of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram militants raised the global rallying cry "bring back our girls," most of those...
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Romola Garai joins IRC Voices
Header Image Photo: IRC English actress Romola Garai has joined forces with International Rescue Committee as the newest member of the IRC Voices. “The most important thing I learned in Burundi was how...
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Ebola Crisis: New interview with David Miliband in Liberia [Video]
Header Image Interviewed on Oct. 11 in Monrovia, Liberia, IRC president David Miliband says that people are afraid to go to health centers because they think they might catch Ebola there. He talks...
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Kids from Haiti sing the six steps to washing your hands [VIDEO]
Header Image October 15 is Global Handwashing Day. Kids at an IRC "child-friendly space" in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, demonstrate how to wash your hands thoroughly in six steps -- with a catchy song....
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In Shimelba refugee camp, children sing and recite poems about proper hand...
Header Image Photo: IRC On a recent sunny day at the Shimelba refugee camp, home to some 6,000 displaced Eritreans in northwest Ethiopia, more than 250 children gathered to watch their peers act out...
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