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RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC's Felix Leger on VOA today t.co/vzvenVNEJ1
May 22, 2013
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RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC will provide 70,000 liters of clean water daily--enough potable water for 5,000 people a day to drink, cook and bathe #…
May 22, 2013
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Less than 10 yrs after fleeing Somalia, Amal Kahim Jama & her family became refugees again, in Syria: t.co/wZkmKWqy00 via @AJEnglish
May 22, 2013
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@IRCPress You've been quoted in my #Storify story "Crisis in Darfur, 10 Years On" t.co/guLOti8F02
May 21, 2013
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RT @IRCPress: Race against time to aid new #Darfur #refugees in Chad before rains begin: t.co/z6eDBFeR1I
May 21, 2013
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Posted by The.IRC on June 21st, 2012
Michelle Obama's book takes readers inside the White House Kitchen Garden and spotlights other gardens that have inspired her, including an IRC New Roots farm. more »
Posted in New Roots, United States, US - San Diego, CA | Tags: Michelle Obama, new roots, what we're reading |
Posted by The.IRC on June 21st, 2012
Poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence are common in villages like Paulina Acayo's that are recovering from the long and brutal Lord’s Resistance Army conflict in northern Uganda. more »
Posted in Post conflict, Women, Domestic Violence, Africa, Uganda | Tags: domestic violence, conflict, women, women_LRA, VSLA |
Posted by The.IRC on June 20th, 2012
On the eve of World Refugee Day, the IRC's Bob Kitchen spoke with TakePart about the global refugee crisis, ranking the world’s most vulnerable nations. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Indonesia, IRC Worldwide | Tags: refugees, World Refugee Day, humanitarian aid |
Posted by The.IRC on June 20th, 2012
The Magnum Foundation is marking World Refugee Day today with three amazing photo essays about refugees by foundation-supported photographers. more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid | Tags: refugees, World Refugee Day, photos, humanitarian aid |
Posted by The.IRC on June 20th, 2012
While Esther was giving birth to triplets at an IRC clinic in Congo, fighting swept through her village forcing everyone, including her husband and other children to flee. She doesn’t know where they are and can’t return home. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Mothers, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: World Refugee Day, North Kivu, photos, conflict, mothers |
Posted by Ned Colt on June 20th, 2012
An IRC doctor provides treatment to Syrian refugees in Jordan who have limited access to medical care. The IRC has opened two clinics in Jordan. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Health, Syria Crisis, Middle East, Jordan | Tags: Jordan, health, Syrian refugees, clinic | 5 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on June 19th, 2012
On World Refugee Day the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, is asking what you would do if faced with the difficult decisions that refugees must make. more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid | Tags: refugees, IDPs, unhcr, conflict, humanitarian aid, persecution | 1 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on June 19th, 2012
Actress Rashida Jones talks about the most urgent refugee crises today and her work as an IRC Voice in an interview with MSN Causes for World Refugee Day. more »
Posted in IRC Voice | Tags: refugees, World Refugee Day, emergencies, quoted, humanitarian aid, IRC Voices |
Posted by The.IRC on June 18th, 2012
A snap from Friday's ribbon cutting ceremony for our second New Roots Community Garden serving resettled refugees and their New York neighbors. more »
Posted in Resettlement, New Roots, GenR, US - New York, NY | Tags: new roots, urban gardening |
Posted by The.IRC on June 18th, 2012
Join us on June 27 for a phone briefing from the field as IRC experts assess the widening drought disaster in Africa and describe the impact of the IRC's response. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Events, Horn of Africa Drought, Sahel Crisis, GenR, Africa, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali | Tags: drought, humanitarian aid, famine, Sahel | 1 Comments
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