David Miliband on Lesbos: discarded life jackets and deflated boats speak to...
Last weekend on the island of Lesbos, IRC president David Miliband met some of the thousands of refugees fleeing to Europe. Last weekend on the island of Lesbos, International Rescue Committee...
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Afghan refugee's 3,000 mile trek to safety
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC Abous fled his home in central Afghanistan in late August, trekking by foot with his wife and six-month-old son through Iran and Turkey to reach Europe. By Tyler Jump...
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Lesbos: The IRC scales up support for thousands of refugees landing on Greek...
Header Image Photo: ZEpaminondas/IRC As waves of people continue to arrive onto Greece’s shores, the IRC is ramping up its response on the island of Lesbos, the entry point for more than half of the...
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Helping Syrian children cope and heal after crisis
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC The Bezos Family Foundation along with the IRC and Global Nomads Group launched the Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms Challenge which will help Syrian refugee...
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Bringing confidence and creativity to Beirut's street kids [Photo Share]
Header Image Photo: Andrea Falcon/IRC Amer is one of IRC's educators who provide street and working children in Beirut, including Syrian refugees fleeing from war, with psychosocial support,...
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Struggling to cope as refugee crisis intensifies [Video]
Header Image In July, 500 refugees arrived daily on the shores of Lesbos, Greece. Today, the numbers are close to 4,000. IRC president David Miliband spoke with emergency field director Kirk Day last...
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Ending malnutrition on the front lines of fragile states
Header Image Photo: Sven Torfinn/SV David Miliband IRC president David Miliband writes why it’s critical to battle malnutrition in fragile states and the changes world leaders need to make to keep...
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Building new roots in America, one farmers market at a time
Header Image Photo: IRC As they set down new roots in America, refugee farmers are feeding the local economy and filling a gap in neighborhoods with few or no places to purchase fresh produce. By...
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Burundian women find care -- and in an IRC health clinic in Tanzania
Header Image Photo: Anna Kim/IRC Anna Kim Reproductive health services—including access to family planning—are especially vital in areas affected by crisis. Here's a look into an IRC-run health clinic...
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Syrian refugees once had lives that were just the same as ours [QUOTED]
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC IRC emergency director Bob Kitchen writes in Quartz that what has struck him during all of the interviews he's done in war zones in the past 15 years, "I recognize...
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After a bomb took her son's hearing, a Syrian mother goes to Europe to try to...
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC Ali lost his hearing at five months old after a bomb struck his home in war-ravaged Aleppo, Syria. His mother, Fatima, led her family on a perilous journey to Europe...
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David Miliband: Why the Syrian crisis has spilled into Europe [QUOTED]
Header Image Photo: Myrto Koutoulia/IRC IRC president David Miliband testified before Congress on Sep. 29 on the growing humanitarian crisis sparked by the civil war in Syria. Earlier this month, he...
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New learning centers give children a safe place to study after Nepal quake
Header Image Photo: AAR Japan Children whose clasrooms were damaged by the powerful earthquake that struck Nepal in April are now heading to class in new learning centers built by IRC partner AAR...
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As White House caps refugee arrivals at 85,000, IRC renews call to U.S. to...
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC The IRC believes that the Obama administration’s decision to resettle 10,000 Syrians over the next year does not reflect the magnitude of the worst refugee crisis...
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Meet George, an activist in Greece who cannot turn his back on the people of...
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC The surge in refugees arriving in Greece has given 33-year-old George Tyrikos the chance to repay a 70-year-old family debt to the people of Syria, where his...
View ArticleThe IRC's statement on MSF hospital attack in Kunduz, Afghanistan
The IRC is shocked and appalled by the news that a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital was hit by a series of air strikes in Kunduz, Afghanistan. We support the calls of UNSG Ban Ki Moon and others...
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World Teacher’s Day: ensuring education in the most remote areas
Header Image Photo: IRC Through the IRC's community-based education project called "Partnerships for Peace," Gul Zada is one of many teachers bringing education to thousands of children living in...
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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 ten years ago today, IRC emergency teams aided 230,000...
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Piper Perabo: How bad would things have to get? [QUOTED]
Header Image Photo: ZEpaminondas/IRC "How bad would things have to get, for you to spend all of your money so your family could cram into a small, flimsy, rubber boat with 40 other people?" Actress...
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How one Syrian girl convinced her father to let her go back to school
Header Image Photo: S. Hylton/IRC After enrolling in an IRC program for adolescent girls in Lebanon, 14-year-old Marah from Syria learned how to better communicate with her father about something very...
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