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On the Front Lines of Ebola [PHOTO ESSAY]
On the Front Lines of Ebola Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Peter Biro Liberia, the country hit hardest by the outbreak, has seen more than 2,700 deaths. The IRC’s Peter Biro shares some of his...
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Typhoon Haiyan: Surviving and rebuilding [VIDEO]
Typhoon Haiyan: Surviving and rebuilding Header Image When Typhoon Haiyan hit the small fishing village of Sua, Marilyn Belga and her family lost their homes and almost their lives. A year later,...
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Ebola Crisis: Latest updates from the front lines of the humanitarian response
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC 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...
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Chipotle Cultivate Foundation helps refugee farmers set down new roots in the...
Chipotle Cultivate Foundation grant for IRC Header Image Photo: Jean-Philippe Dobrin/IRC The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation has awarded the IRC New Roots Program with a $500,000 grant to support...
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New IRC film: Escaping Syria
Escaping Syria Header Image The IRC's new documentary film, "Escaping Syria," shows the daily struggle of four Syrian families living in Iraq’s largest refugee camp, Domiz and one of Lebanon’s poorest...
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Back on the water a year after Typhoon Haiyan
Back on the water a year after the storm Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC Tyler Jump One year ago, Typhoon Haiyan swept away almost all of the boats and fishing equipment Nicanor Fernandez and...
View ArticleWhile we look for cash response options in Syria, let’s not forget what is...
While we look for cash response options in Syria, let’s not forget what is working – Vouchers! Syria is as complex of a crisis as I’ve seen, with a decimated and limited financial infrastructure...
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Families make the difference [IRC Reports]
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC In order to grow up happy and healthy, children need a safe and loving home. However, home is exactly where children worldwide are most at risk of violence, and it...
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David Miliband: Positive parenting programs help keep children safe
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Today, the world marks the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It’s on this occasion that the IRC releases the results of groundbreaking...
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Immigration Reform in United States Header Image Photo: Eze Amos/IRC The IRC, which helps resettle thousands of refugees in the United States each year, applauds President Barack Obama’s decision and...
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After Typhoon Haiyan: A safe space for storms, and for healing
A safe space for storms, and for and healing Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC Tyler Jump After Typhoon Haiyan hit, the IRC and its local partner built safe learning environments for children aimed...
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End Ebola: How to stop the deadly virus
End Ebola Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC The current Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest, longest and most complex in the nearly four-decade history of the disease. IRC global health and...
View ArticleBeyond refugee camps: Exploring more sustainable alternatives in Lebanon and...
Beyond refugee camps: Exploring more sustainable alternatives in Lebanon and Uganda In recognition of the radically different realities now faced by refugees the world over, in July 2014 the UN...
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South Sudan: uprooted by conflict [Storify]
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Since December, when a political rivalry erupted into ethnic violence, thousands of people have been killed and nearly 2 million have been forced to flee their homes....
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Ebola first responders: The IRC and the outbreak in Sierra Leone
Ebola first responders Header Image Photo: Rachel Unkovic/IRC On May 26, the first case of Ebola was reported in Kailahun District in eastern Sierra Leone. The disease quickly spread to neighboring...
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16 ways the IRC empowers women and girls [PHOTO ESSAY]
16 ways the IRC empowers women and girls Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC In honor of the "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence," which begins Nov. 25, we share 16 ways the IRC works to...
View ArticleQuestion without answers: How to protect infants from Ebola?
Question without answers: How to protect infants from Ebola? As an international community, we continue to be horrified by all that we have learned about Ebola and humbled by all that we still do not...
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Homesick to Homecoming: A refugee’s love for farming
A refugee’s love for farming Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC In 1999 Albert Betoudji and his family, refugees from war-torn Chad, were resettled in Salt Lake City, Utah. There, Albert was delighted...
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Trapped in South Sudan’s civil war
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Bentiu camp is a miserable settlement of makeshift huts and tents sitting in a mosquito-infested swamp in Unity State in the north of the country. Almost 50,000...
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Trapped: Powerful photos from South Sudan
Header Image The IRC's Peter Biro shares powerful photos from Bentiu camp, where 50,000 people displaced by the ongoing fighting in South Sudan have been forced to take refuge amid swamps, sewage and...
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