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Sarah Spencer, Cosmo Woman of the Year
Posted by The.IRC on November 13th, 2009
Sarah Spencer, the IRC’s acting director for gender-based violence programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was this week named one of six winners of Cosmopolitan UK magazine’s Ultimate Women of the Year awards. more »
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Pakistan: "No Peace"
Posted by The.IRC on October 20th, 2009
IRC senior policy adviser Anna Husarska writes in The Guardian about the difficult and delicate work of our colleague Rahmad Pari, who is assisting people who fled the fighting between Pakistan's military and the Taliban in Swat Valley. more »
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Pakistan’s forgotten crisis
Posted by Peter.Biro on October 13th, 2009
While hundreds of thousands of displaced people have been able to go back to their homes in Pakistan’s conflict-ridden Swat Valley, some of the poorest people in the country are unable to return to their destroyed homes and crops. more »
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Somali Refugees: Mohamed's Story
Posted by joanne.offer on August 12th, 2009
Mohamed Yusuf was beaten on the back of his knee by a soldier during his journey from Kismayo in Somalia to a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya “The soldier used the back of his gun against my knee and I’ve had problems walking ever since,” says Mohamed. more »
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Somali Refugees: Dahir's story
Posted by joanne.offer on August 11th, 2009
Mohamed is 15 and comes from Kismayo in Somalia. Dahir says: “My father died in the fighting – he wasn’t a soldier, our village was attacked. I also lost my mother during the civil war and I don’t know where she is." more »
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Somali Refugees: Iftin’s story
Posted by joanne.offer on August 7th, 2009
Eighteen-year-old Iftin Mohamed dropped out of school when she was just ten or eleven. (Although school is free, families say they have to provide materials like notebooks and pens.) Iftin now has a ten-month old daughter, Magal, who’s been struggling to get over an infection. more »
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Pakistan: Going home could be deadly
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on August 7th, 2009
Even as thousands of displaced Pakistani families head home to the Swat district, thousands more are still fleeing violence elsewhere in the country’s volatile northwest. "The crisis in Pakistan is far from over," says Mike Young, the IRC's Pakistan country representative. more »
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Congolese Women Respond: "These messages comfort us"
Posted by tim.lash on June 24th, 2009
Last year we launched a very special online campaign, asking people to send personal messages to survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We wanted to show support for women and girls in Congo by sharing with them messages of solidarity and encouragement from around the world. more »
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George Rupp analyzes Darfur [Video]
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on June 2nd, 2009
IRC president George Rupp analyzes the situation in Darfur and Sudan's expulsion of humanitarian aid groups in this interview with BigThink. more »
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Latest from Pakistan: "Like Bosnia and Rwanda"
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 29th, 2009
As the crisis in Pakistan deepens, the IRC is racing to meet the basic lifesaving needs of thousands of families. But relief funds are scarce and time is running short, says the IRC's Mike Young, who compares the current scale of displacement in Pakistan to the wars in Rwanda and Bosnia. more »
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