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RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC's Felix Leger on VOA today t.co/vzvenVNEJ1
May 22, 2013
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RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC will provide 70,000 liters of clean water daily--enough potable water for 5,000 people a day to drink, cook and bathe #…
May 22, 2013
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Less than 10 yrs after fleeing Somalia, Amal Kahim Jama & her family became refugees again, in Syria: t.co/wZkmKWqy00 via @AJEnglish
May 22, 2013
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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
VOICES FROM THE FIELD THE IRC BLOG
D.r. Congo
Posted by The.IRC on December 22nd, 2010
I was working with the IRC. They brought me a young girl who was thirteen years old. She had just been taken by rebel groups. These men forced her to stay in the forest with them for three months. more »
Posted in Women, D.R. Congo | Tags: humanitarian, Sexual Violence, Women's Rights, conflict, war, women, Wake Up Wednesdays | 1 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on December 15th, 2010
We work with a lot of women who are just going about their business ... they're in their fields, they're in their homes, taking care of their children — and armed groups come through and target these women for rape... more »
Posted in Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: humanitarian, Sexual Violence, Women's Rights, conflict, war, women, Wake Up Wednesdays |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 29th, 2010
My IRC colleague Peter Biro recently traveled through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo -- one of the most volatile areas in Africa -- where a staggering 1.8 million people are believed to be displaced. more »
Posted in War, D.R. Congo | Tags: refugees, DR Congo, DRC, humanitarian, conflict | 3 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on April 21st, 2010
Marit Glad and her IRC colleagues are in a little village in the eastern province of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, speaking with local families. They’re trying to understand why so many children here are not going to school -- and why parents are making the difficult choice to take a child out of the classroom. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: children, humanitarian, Advocacy, education, South Kivu |
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 »
Posted in Women, D.R. Congo | Tags: refugees, Anne Richard, Ben Affleck, humanitarian | 3 Comments
Posted by Peter.Biro on February 23rd, 2010
The IRC-run Tuungane program has helped nearly two million people living in remote war-torn eastern Congo rebuild villages and construct new clinics, wells, schools, bridges and roads. more »
Posted in Women, D.R. Congo | Tags: refugees, congo, humanitarian, Tuungane |
Posted by The.IRC on January 26th, 2010
The IRC's Peter Biro tells CNN about the people and conditions he encountered on his most recent trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Inside Africa. more »
Posted in War, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: refugees, video, humanitarian, news, conflict |
Posted by Peter.Biro on December 23rd, 2009
Storm clouds are gathering and the wind is tugging at the plastic sheeting covering the hundreds of makeshift shelters that make up the Mungote camp in Congo’s troubled North Kivu province. Over 30,000 people live here, unable to work and with little access to food. more »
Posted in War, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, North Kivu, conflict, war | 1 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on December 17th, 2009
Sexual attacks are deliberate acts of war and terror, says Sarah Spencer, the IRC's emergency gender-based violence coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "Women are raped repeatedly, and brutally." more »
Posted in Women, D.R. Congo | Tags: refugees, aid workers, DRC, humanitarian, nonprofit, Sexual Violence, conflict |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on December 11th, 2009
Rape is not just a by-product of the conflict in Congo; it is a combat strategy systematically used to terrorize and humiliate and it cannot be tolerated to achieve a larger military goal. more »
Posted in Women, D.R. Congo | Tags: humanitarian, United Nations, conflict |
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