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Conflict
Posted by Ned Colt on June 29th, 2012
They cross the open desert in a single file, sometimes well over a hundred Syrians in a single group. The darker the night, the safer they are from Assad's border guards. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Syria Crisis, Middle East, Jordan | Tags: refugees, conflict, humanitarian aid, Syrian refugees |
Posted by The.IRC on June 25th, 2012
Today is the last day to RSVP for an exclusive phone briefing with IRC experts on the widening drought disaster in East Africa and the Sahel: Wednesday, June 27, 12-1pm EDT. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Horn of Africa Drought, Sahel Crisis, Africa, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: drought, conflict, famine, Sahel |
Posted by The.IRC on June 22nd, 2012
The director of the IRC's emergency preparedness and response programs discusses the worsening humanitarian situation in conflict-torn Syria. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Syria Crisis, Jordan | Tags: conflict, emergency response, humanitarian aid, Syrian refugees |
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
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 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 Sinziana.Demian on June 11th, 2012
For more than 15 years, millions of people in eastern Congo have lived under constant threat of violence or suffered brutal attacks. One mother shares her story of survival. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Mothers, Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: South Kivu, conflict, poverty, Rapid Response to Population Movements |
Posted by The.IRC on May 15th, 2012
Seasonal rains due in Sudan and South Sudan will exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis, the IRC and other leading humanitarian agencies warn. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: Sudanese refugees, conflict, humanitarian aid, South Kordofan, Yida |
Posted by The.IRC on May 9th, 2012
BBC report: IRC aid workers in South Sudan's Yida refugee camp say there has been a big rise recently in the number of people fleeing fighting in South Kordofan, Sudan. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: refugees, Sudanese refugees, conflict, South Kordofan, Yida |
Posted by Ned Colt on May 4th, 2012
The IRC has been registering tens of thousands of Pakistanis who’ve fled renewed fighting between Pakistani troops and militants near the Afghan border. In all, close to a half million people have passed through the Jalozai camp since January, registering to ensure they receive vital humanitarian aid. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Post conflict, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: refugees, conflict, Pakistan, Jalozai, humanitarian aid, registration |
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