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"Crisis Syria: Going where?"
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC The IRC's Sharon Waxman on what the international community needs to do to get aid into Syria, how to best support refugees and countries hosting them to prevent escalation of...
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United Nations launches largest-ever aid appeal, for Syria
IRC supports call to help both Syrians and refugee host communities Photo: Peter Biro/IRC At $5.2 billion, the total figure for Syria aid is staggering. It’s more than three times the size of the...
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IRC responds to polio outbreak in Dadaab refugee camps
Photo: Brendan Bannon/UNCHR The IRC in Kenya has been responding to a polio outbreak in the world’s largest refugee complex, Dadaab. The five camps in this sprawling complex house almost half a...
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A year of health care
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC AMMAN, Jordan This week marks one year since the IRC opened two primary health care centers in the Jordanian border cities of Mafraq and Ramtha. In that single year, close to...
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Meeting a desperate need for clean water in camps for Darfuri refugees
Photo: IRC Approximately 50,000 people have fled renewed violence in Darfur, Sudan since January, according to U.N. estimates, many crossing the border into eastern Chad. The IRC is working to meet...
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Syria crisis: Listen to our update from the field
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC After more than two years of civil war in Syria, a humanitarian disaster is gripping the Middle East. Over four million Syrians are now in dire need of assistance. On June 11,...
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World Refugee Day 2013 - join us!
Photo: Brian Harkin On June 20, 2013 the IRC will join the United Nations in its annual salute to the courage of refugees, World Refugee Day. IRC offices across the United States are marking World...
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Syrian doctors saving lives on the frontline with IRC training
The IRC is helping to provide front line medical training to Syrian doctors At 23, Hamid was in medical school in Canada when war broke out in Syria. Today, he’s a veteran of frontline medicine. He...
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In Somalia, a father works to build his family’s future
Photo: Idil Ibrahim/IRC In January, we introduced you to Hassan Omar Ibrahim, a Somali who was forced to flee his home due to the famine and was living at Carafat camp, in Galkayo, Somalia. This is...
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Father’s Day has special significance for one Dad in Dadaab refugee complex
Photo: Lizzy Ongoro/IRC I first met Abdulle Ibrahim Yare in Dadaab complex, home to 500,000 refugees, two years ago at the height of the famine in Somalia. He and his family, along with thousands of...
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In Haiti, parents' difficult choice
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC A family in Haiti, split by poverty and the earthquake, reunite with help from the International Rescue Committee. This week only, listen online to "The Parents' Choice," part of...
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Hidden Lives: Tikaram's story
Photo: Andrew McConnell Tikaram Chapagai, 46, a Bhutanese refugee who resettled in New York in 2008 with help from the IRC, talks about his experience coming to the United States in "Hidden Lives: The...
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Refugees in the United States: Photos, updates
On this July 4, read stories about the newest Americans: Refugees who are on the path to becoming permanent residents or United States citizens. Learn how the IRC is there to support them. The United...
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Tricked into separation, a family is reunited in Haiti
Photo: IRC In Haiti, extreme poverty often forces parents to place their children in orphanages to be cared for and educated. But many children have been neglected, others exploited and abused, and...
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In Congo, finding promise in a therapy that brings women together to heal
Photo: Kevin Sites Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo who are survivors of sexual violence often live with feelings of fear, depression and isolation. Research director Jeannie Annan describes...
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Lives in limbo in South Sudan
Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC AWEIL, South Sudan A great many of those returning to the new nation of South Sudan have managed to reclaim their ancestral lands or are being supported by relatives....
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From South Sudan on Independence Day: “Even though I am hungry, I am very...
Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC AWEIL, South Sudan As South Sudan celebrates its second Independence Day on July 9, one young father hopes for a brighter future for his family even as he struggles with...
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Photo Share: Pig-farming, Myanmar
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Pig-farming, one of many ways the International Rescue Committee helps boost the local economy in rural Chin, Myanmar's poorest state. Pig-farming, one of many ways the...
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Quoted: David Miliband on the Syria crisis
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC "Nearly seven million Syrians are living in desperate conditions," says David Miliband, who in September will become president and CEO of the IRC. Miliband writes of meeting...
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Education for everyone
Education for girls Photo: Ned Colt/IRC The IRC is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunities wherever we work. We train teachers, construct classrooms, and support schools that are...
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