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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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RT @MoveEndViolence: Why do we need a #movement to end #VAWG? #MovementMaker Heidi Lehmann of @theIRC on the blog. t.co/H74c80BdAs
May 20, 2013
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@Doylech @oneworldadopt @Just_Naomi_chan @socialfund @AFRIpads @tamaraduker @lynndalsing @HuTerra @scribblymouse thanks for your support!
May 20, 2013
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RT @IRCuk: Thanks @LCO_orchestra @RiyadNicolas @cadoganhall for an excellent concert & for supporting our work w. Syrian refugees #TheAsfar…
May 20, 2013
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Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 7th, 2010
Peter Biro shares the story of a young mother in Central African Republic, where a long-running civil war decimated the country’s health care system. more »
Posted in Women, Africa, Central African Republic | Tags: refugees, health, humanitarian, Malaria, malnutrition, Mother's Day, conflict |
Posted by Peter.Biro on March 26th, 2010
Ban Puta, a hamlet on the Thailand side of the border with Myanmar, is nestled on a small hill overlooking paddy fields and dense jungle foliage. Most people who live here have fled conflict and economic collapse in Myanmar for a more peaceful life in Thailand. more »
Posted in Health, Asia, Thailand | Tags: refugees, humanitarian |
Posted by melissa.winkler on March 3rd, 2010
The IRC’s Melissa Winkler is in Haiti to help earthquake survivors tell their stories and to document the IRC’s emergency work. She shared these photos from the shanty towns of Port-au-Prince, where a high concentration of people, paltry or non-existent sanitation and the buildup of waste pose a massive health threat. more »
Posted in Health, Haiti | Tags: health, humanitarian, Melissa Winkler, sanitation, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters |
Posted by joanne.offer on February 15th, 2010
On World AIDS Day the IRC organized a large march of men, women and children through Lodwar Town in northwest Kenya to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS. One of the marchers had a very personal story to tell, as Peter tested positive for HIV in 2007. more »
Posted by joanne.offer on February 2nd, 2010
Education is a key component of the IRC’s health programs. So staff recently gave a talk in Kakuma refugee camp on the medical complications surrounding pregnancy in young girls and female circumcision. One of the audience members – Somali refugee Kaho Ahmed Gesso – found the talk very welcome. more »
Posted in Women, Africa, Kenya | Tags: health, Kakuma, rescue, Dadaab refugee camps, Somali refugees, women, refugee, IRC, international rescue committee, female circumcision, FGM |
Posted by joanne.offer on January 19th, 2010
Elizabeth remembers the first day she went to be tested for HIV. “It was frightening and I walked up to the door of the testing center but I didn’t go in,” she admits. On the second day, Elizabeth managed to pluck up the courage to be tested and discovered she was positive. more »
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on November 9th, 2009
When commercial lender CIT filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, American taxpayers lost $2.3 billion to a wasted bailout. That's a lot of money. To drive home the point, business writer Lawrence Delevingne asked the IRC and some other humanitarian groups how $2.3 billion could have been spent to help out in the developing world. more »
Posted in Health | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Malaria |
Posted by The.IRC on October 7th, 2009
The IRC has put our emergency preparedness plan for Influenza A H1N1/A virus viral outbreak into action after 21 cases were confirmed in two large refugee camps in Kenya. more »
Posted in Health, Kenya | Tags: refugees, H1N1/A virus, humanitarian, influenza, refugee camps, sumatra, swine flu, Kenya, natural disasters, Sumatra earthquake |
Posted by The.IRC on September 23rd, 2009
In her role as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, actress Angelina Jolie visited an IRC hospital in a refugee camp complex in Dadaab, Kenya, on September 12. The U.N. said she was there to call attention to the situation of its 285,000 refugees, most of whom fled war-torn Somalia. more »
Posted in Health, Kenya | Tags: refugees, Angelina Jolie, humanitarian, un, unhcr | 1 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on September 21st, 2009
Nothing quite prepared me for my first encounter with a severely malnourished child. On a recent visit to the Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya, an IRC doctor showed me into the Hagadera hospital, where the IRC treats malnourished children. more »
Posted in Health, Kenya | Tags: children, refugees, humanitarian, malnutrition, refugee camps | 1 Comments
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