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Photos: "You never know if you’ll come back safe"
Posted by The.IRC on December 9th, 2010
The Women’s Refugee Commission traveled to Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab camps this summer. There they spoke with refugee women who risk being attacked when they leave the camps to collect firewood to cook food rations for their families. more »
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The daily struggle to cook a meal
Posted by The.IRC on November 11th, 2010
This summer I traveled to the Dadaab region in Kenya, where three refugee camps—among the largest in the world—host nearly 300,000 refugees. In the camps, I met refugee women who talked with me about their struggle to find enough firewood to cook for their families. more »
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Noted: Women, war & peace in Afghanistan
Posted by The.IRC on October 19th, 2010
Author, activist, photographer and IRC volunteer Ann Jones is interviewed about her recently published book “War Is Not Over When It’s Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War,” which is based on Jones’ work with the IRC’s gender-based violence unit. more »
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We asked. World leaders answered at CGI.
Posted by The.IRC on September 23rd, 2010
We had the opportunity to ask President Clinton and other leaders who attended the Clinton Global Initiative meeting this week how they would address a particularly urgent global problem: violence against women. more »
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Stop violence – women can wait no longer
Posted by Elisabeth.Roesch on September 22nd, 2010
The countdown has begun for Congress to act on a bill that would help harness U.S. efforts to confront the biggest moral outrage of our time – violence against women and girls. At a Congressional panel in support of the International Violence Against Women Act last week, the sentiment was clear – now is the time. more »
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From one of the world's poorest countries, a mother's story
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 »
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"Jambo, Ben Affleck"
Posted by Anne.Richard on April 14th, 2010
IRC vice president Anne Richard applauds actor Ben Affleck for joining with the IRC and others who are working to prevent and respond to sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. more »
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Men speak out on violence against women in Chad
Posted by The.IRC on March 30th, 2010
Guest blogger Brenna O’Rourke is an IRC intern in Chad, where the IRC is providing health care and other essential services to 58,000 Darfuri refugees and local communities. We also reach out to men and boys to change attitudes that foster violence against women. more »
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Haiti: Sexual assaults "a serious problem"
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on March 27th, 2010
"Violence against women and girls was a serious problem in Haiti pre-disaster," says Heidi Lehmann, director of the IRC's Gender Based Violence Technical Unit. She spoke with VOA this week for a story about security enhancements prompted by an increase in sexual assaults in Haitian camps. more »
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Haiti: A better life for women
Posted by melissa.winkler on March 23rd, 2010
Minouche lost her home and husband in January's devastating earthquake in Haiti. I met her last week in Bel Air, a vast and congested shantytown of makeshift tents and shacks now home to nearly 4,000 people, including Minouche and her six children. more »
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