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Four last-minute Mother's Day gifts that honor the strength of moms
Header Image Photo: IRC Mother’s Day is right around the corner. This year, dedicate Rescue Gifts to the special moms in your life and we’ll send a beautiful eCard with your personal message in...
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Urgently needed medicines reach hospital in war-torn Aden, Yemen
Header Image Photo: IRC Last week IRC aid workers were able to get lifesaving drugs and medical supplies through to the only hospital still operating in Aden, the port city in southern Yemen that has...
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Fleeing violence in Nigeria: photos, updates [STORIFY]
Header Image In Nigeria and Niger, the IRC is providing emergency support to thousands of people fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency that has plagued the region. Get updates from Niger country director...
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Mothers in Burundi do their best to make a better life for their children and...
Header Image Photo: Sophia Jones/IRC As Burundi suffers ongoing political unrest, mothers do their best to make a better life for their children and country. The IRC's Sophia Jones recently spoke with...
View ArticleIn solidarity with Baltimore
IRC executive director in Baltimore Ruben Chandrasekar says it has been a difficult few weeks watching the city struggle to respond constructively to the death of Freddie Gray. He reflects on ways to...
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Ebola Crisis: Latest updates from the front lines
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC On May 9, the IRC celebrates Liberia's 42 days Ebola-free. The IRC has been at the forefront of the fight to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus since the first...
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Happy Mother's Day
Header Image Photo: Courtesy Still Life Projects After 10 long years apart, a refugee mother was reunited with her son With the help of the International Rescue Committee’s dedicated staff in...
View ArticleQ&A: Understanding the Central American Minors (CAM) resettlement program
Some 60,000 unaccompanied children from Central America, many of them fleeing violence, crossed the United States border last summer. The U.S. State Department’s Central American Minors in-country...
View ArticleNo Other Escape: One girl’s courageous journey to freedom
Some 60,000 unaccompanied children from Central America crossed the United States border last summer, many fleeing violence and seeking reunion with a parent. Read one girl’s story. Some 60,000...
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Nepal Earthquake: Aid reaches a village close to the epicenter
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC The villagers in Tasarphu, which lies close to the quake's epicenter, are desperately poor, like most rural Nepalese. Over the past week, some 7,000 have received...
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Nepal earthquake response in pictures
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Aid workers from Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR), the IRC’s partner organization in Nepal, have distributed rice and other aid to thousands of villagers...
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Crisis and coup in Burundi drive tens of thousands of refugees to Tanzania
Header Image As violence continues in Burundi in the wake of President Pierre Nkurunziza’s contested reelection bid, tens of thousands of Burundians are fleeing to neighboring Tanzania. With news today...
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Syrian girls voice their stories through film
Header Image Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC The IRC and its partners are helping to make sure Syrian refugees find a way to heal and cope with their new lives. In collaboration with WomenOne, the IRC...
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Nepal Earthquakes: Getting aid through to remote villages as the rainy season...
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC As Nepal struggles to recover from the devastation of two major earthquakes in less than a month, aid workers from IRC partner AAR are getting food and emergency...
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Burundi crisis: Aid worker updates [STORIFY]
Header Image Photo: Justine Luinael/IRC As violence continues in Burundi following a contested presidential reelection bid, over 111,000 people − most of them women and children − have fled to...
View ArticleLooking in the aid mirror: Séverine Autesserre’s Peaceland
Looking in the aid mirror: Séverine Autesserre’s Peaceland Alyoscia D'Onofrio It seems to me that we can only improve the practices of aid by being more aware of how our actions and inactions are...
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Fleeing violence in Nigeria: photos, updates [STORIFY]
Header Image In Nigeria and Niger, the IRC is providing emergency support to thousands of people fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency that has plagued the region. Get updates from Niger country director...
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Burundi Crisis: The IRC ramps up emergency support for refugees flooding into...
Header Image Photo: IRC As violence and fear drive thousands of Burundians to Tanzania, IRC teams are working to meet the refugees' urgent needs. Some 50,000 people are stranded in a tiny Tanzanian...
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“The problem with Ebola is that it is spread through love”
Header Image Photo: Rachel Unkovic/IRC Exactly one year ago, the first cases of Ebola were reported in Sierra Leone. Laura Miller, with the IRC team there fighting the outbreak, reflects on how much...
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Caught in civil war, South Sudan faces severe food shortages
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC South Sudan, already in the grip of civil war, is now also on the brink of a food emergency. By the end of July, as many as 4.6 million South Sudanese will face...
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