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South Sudan: uprooted by conflict [Storify]
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC Since a political rivalry in South Sudan erupted into widespread violence, some 2 million people have been forced to flee their homes. "Without a political solution,...
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World Refugee Day 2015 - join us!
Header Image Photo: Kate Christman/IRC June 20 is World Refugee Day 2015. IRC offices across the United States and around the world are honoring the resilience and courage of refugees with a variety of...
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Inside Yemen: An IRC aid worker reports from his hometown, now surrounded by...
Header Image Photo: IRC The IRC’s Wassem Alshehab, who is part of the relief effort in Yemen, has been reporting from his hometown in Aden’s Buriqa district, now cut off by the Houthi rebels. Three...
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Honor Dad by helping a father in need
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC Father’s Day is around the corner. Honor the courageous dads in your life—and dads around the world—by purchasing Rescue Gifts. This Father’s Day, honor the...
View ArticleDavid Miliband on the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe: “A decade of...
IRC president David Miliband says the crisis unfolding off the southern shores of Europe is a direct consequence of the failure of the international community to find solutions to ongoing conflicts in...
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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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Global leaders have “59.5 million reasons to find resolutions” to conflicts...
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC War, conflict and persecution have uprooted almost 60 million people—the highest number ever recorded by the United Nations refugee agency, which has released its...
View ArticleWorld Refugee Day 2015: 60 million lives upended
Nearly 60 million people have been forced to flee their homes by war, conflict and persecution. The IRC joins the United Nations on World Refugee Day (June 20) in raising awareness of this...
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David Miliband in Niger, parched refuge for Nigerians fleeing attacks by...
Header Image Photo: IRC Last weekend, IRC president David Miliband met with some of the 150,000 refugees from northeastern Nigeria who have fled to neighboring Niger to escape attacks by Boko Haram...
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Burundi crisis: Aid worker updates [STORIFY]
Header Image Photo: Hannah K. Brown/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...
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Burundi: The IRC scales up support for thousands fleeing escalating political...
Header Image Photo: Pepijn Hentenaar/Stichting Vluchteling Tyler Jump The IRC is ramping up its response in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo where thousands of Burundian refugees have...
View ArticleSyria crisis: More than 120,000 forced to flee as fighting intensifies in the...
Attacks in the past week in Hassakah province in northeastern Syria has left thousands of people in urgent need of food, water and shelter. The IRC has been working around the clock to provide...
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"No shortcut": New Ebola cases in Liberia must be a wake-up call to health...
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC News this week that Ebola has resurfaced in Liberia is a stark reminder of the ongoing threats facing the country, the IRC said in a statement today. These new cases...
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80% of people in Yemen need urgent aid, IRC calls for a pause in fighting
Header Image Photo: IRC As the United Nations declares the conflict in Yemen one of the world's most serious humanitarian crises, the IRC is calling for a pause in the fighting to allow aid to reach...
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On July 4, a Palestinian couple marks their first year as U.S. citizens...
Header Image Photo: Aze Amos/IRC Shoeab Ammar and his wife Khadijeh Nasar arrived as refugees from Iraq in 2008 and with the help of the IRC, they were resettled in Virginia. Many refugees and other...
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Nepal earthquake: Rebuilding schools for thousands of children
Header Image Photo: AAR As Nepal slowly recovers from two powerful earthquakes, the IRC is working with our partner AAR to rebuild schools destroyed in the worst disaster to hit the country in 80...
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Syria's tragic milestone: 4 million refugees
Header Image Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC The number of people who have fled to neighboring countries to escape Syria's civil war has surpassed four million. The latest figures released by the U.N....
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Born into chaos, South Sudan marks its fourth independence day engulfed by war
Header Image Photo: Thomas Lay/IRC Since a political rivalry in South Sudan erupted into a civil war, thousands have been killed, and more than two million uprooted from their homes. Today, as South...
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Yemen crisis: Latest updates [STORIFY]
Header Image Photo: IRC More than 3,000 people have been killed in the recent fighting in Yemen and a million have fled their homes—the newly displaced joining hundreds of thousands of people uprooted...
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IRC sends emergency team to Greece as refugee arrivals soar
Header Image With Europe facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis on its southern shores, the IRC is sending an emergency team to the Greek island of Lesbos where 1,000 refugees are arriving daily...
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