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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
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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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Call members of Senate Judiciary Ctte & ask them to retain #CIR provisions that protect refugees & asylees t.co/xLIoPRWloc #CIRmarkup
May 20, 2013
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#CIRmarkup: Sec. 3405 of U.S. #CIR bill is in markup right now. It contains important protections for #refugees, asylees & stateless people.
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Education
Posted by The.IRC on August 9th, 2012
In countries recovering from war and disaster, the first thing many parents want for their families is for their children to go back to school. Hear from IRC aid workers about how we are making sure kids have safe places to learn. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Education, Africa, IRC Worldwide, Liberia | Tags: children, video, aid workers, development, education, Healing Classrooms, back to school |
Posted by The.IRC on July 6th, 2012
Germaine, a refugee from war-torn Republic of Congo, and her family were resettled by the IRC in Abilene, Texas, in 2007. With the goal of becoming a U.S. citizen, Germaine has enrolled in an IRC citizenship education program, studying English as a second language and American civics. more »
Posted in Immigration, Resettlement, Abilene, TX, United States, US - Dallas, TX | Tags: refugee resettlement, education, ESL, Congolese refugees, U.S. citizenship, Q&A | 1 Comments
Posted by Ned Colt on May 10th, 2012
More than 5,000 children displaced by fighting along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan are finding support and stability in schools run by the IRC. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Education, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: children, IDPs, education, Jalozai, Healing Classrooms, Internally displaced, Right to Play |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 2nd, 2012
Brooke Hauser, author of “The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens,” talks about the particular challenges faced by young refugees as they start their new lives in America. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Resettlement, Education, Urban Refugees, United States, US - New York, HQ, US - New York, NY | Tags: refugees, resettlement, education, The New Kids, Brooke Hauser | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on April 26th, 2012
Cultivating acceptance for the importance of early childhood education, especially for girls, has been an uphill battle in an isolated community of nomadic herders in Kenya. Learn how an IRC water tank helped fill the local school's classrooms with new students. more »
Posted in Health, Education, Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: water, education, Turkana, We Can Be Heroes | 2 Comments
Posted by Sinziana.Demian on March 6th, 2012
With a motorboat purchased specifically for the purpose, the IRC is bringing much-needed medicine and other supplies to remote communities along the shores of Congo's Lake Kivu. more »
Posted in Health, Post conflict, Climate Change, Education, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: Malaria, education, Tuungane, South Kivu, humanitarian aid, community-driven reconstruction, Mushenyi |
Posted by The.IRC on March 5th, 2012
Students eat lunch at an IRC-supported learning center for displaced Burmese refugee and migrant children in northwestern Thailand. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Education, Asia, Thailand | Tags: children, Burmese refugees, education |
Posted by Heather Hansen on February 7th, 2012
Iraq’s education system, once a leader in the Arab world, has suffered severely as a result of three decades of war and conflict. Now the IRC and the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, have partnered to create a training program to help teachers and students address some of the worst problems. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Middle East, Iraq | Tags: children, education, conflict, schools |
Posted by The.IRC on January 27th, 2012
This afternoon Brooke Hauser, author of “The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens,” visited our New York headquarters for a discussion about the challenges young refugees must overcome in their new lives in America. more »
Posted in Resettlement, United States, US - New York, NY | Tags: youth, refugees, education, what we're reading, The New Kids, Brooke Hauser, James Lenton |
Posted by The.IRC on January 27th, 2012
Helping boys with their homework after school in the Kenema district of southeastern Sierra Leone. The IRC and our local partners raise awareness of the dangers of child labor and the importance of education. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Africa, Sierra Leone | Tags: children, child labor, education |
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