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Baby Jenny reunited with parents after Haitian quake
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 5th, 2010
The IRC's Melissa Winkler, tweets about the reunion of Baby Jenny and her parents, who arrived from Haiti today. The IRC will aid the family in Miami. more »
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Tracing Haiti's missing kids [Video]
Posted by The.IRC on March 29th, 2010
The IRC is working to reunite children separated from their families in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake. The IRC’s Rebecca Chandler spoke with CNN for a story about the difficult tracing process. more »
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The daily struggles of refugee life in Nairobi [Photos]
Posted by joanne.offer on February 22nd, 2010
The word ‘refugee’ brings to mind images of sprawling camps, with rows of white tents reaching out to the skyline. Yet the reality is that 1 in 2 refugees now live in an urban setting. Take Nairobi, the bustling capital city of Kenya, for example. It’s now home to tens of thousands of refugees. more »
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How best to help Haiti's orphaned children
Posted by The.IRC on January 20th, 2010
The ideal situation is to keep kids in a familiar surrounding with family members or with others that they know and not to remove them from a familiar setting because this just can increase their distress and make it harder for them to recover ultimately. more »
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Pakistan: Mukhtar Mai - 'School for girls, not marriage' [16 Days]
Posted by The.IRC on December 10th, 2009
A Pakistani woman named Mukhtar Mai made news around the world in 2002 when she took a group of men to court after they raped her in what they called “honor revenge” against her family because of something Mai’s brother had done. more »
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Child Rights: IRC Q&A in the Huffington Post
Posted by The.IRC on November 20th, 2009
The Huffington Post’s Victoria Fine interviewed the IRC’s Eduardo Garcia Rolland to mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of a Child – which is today. more »
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Take action for children's rights today
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on November 20th, 2009
Today is the 20th anniversary of the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child. Only two countries have yet to join the global community in ratifying this important agreement that protects children: Somalia -- and the United States. Join the IRC in urging President Obama and Congress to ratify the convention without delay. more »
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IRC aid workers honored
Posted by The.IRC on November 13th, 2009
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Uganda: Going to school for the first time
Posted by joanne.offer on October 28th, 2009
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John Hurt appeals on behalf of the IRC
Posted by Peter.Biro on August 19th, 2009
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