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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
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Posted by joanne.offer on September 17th, 2008
Posted in Children & Youth, Health, Humanitarian Aid, Women, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Southern Sudan | 2 Comments
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on August 26th, 2008
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Balkans, Europe | Tags: refugees, Bosnia, Croatia, humanitarian, Kosovo, Sarajevo, Serbia |
Posted by joanne.offer on August 20th, 2008
Posted in Health, Humanitarian Aid, Peace, Africa, Uganda | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Joanne Offer in Uganda, Kitgum |
Posted by joanne.offer on August 15th, 2008
Posted in Health, Humanitarian Aid, Africa, South Sudan, Uganda | Tags: refugees, farming, humanitarian, hygiene, Joanne Offer in Uganda, Sudanese refugees |
Posted by The.IRC on August 15th, 2008
Last week, the IRC's team in the North Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz distributed hygiene articles, bedding, cleaning supplies and kitchen utensils at two schools sheltering 120 children, mothers and teachers who were evacuated from South Ossetia as tensions mounted between Russia and Georgia. more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Russia, Georgia, Northern Caucasus | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, North Ossetia, South Ossetia |
Posted by The.IRC on August 14th, 2008
Posted in Children & Youth, Child Soldiers, Disabilities, Humanitarian Aid, Asia, Afghanistan | Tags: refugees, development, humanitarian, landmines, Taleban, Taliban |
Posted by joanne.offer on August 6th, 2008
In Moroto District, northern Uganda, the IRC is helping working children to get out of the workplace and back in to school. Children who come from poor backgrounds often have to drop out of school to earn money to help their families. For example, Lemukol-Betty, 15, used to work in a quarry, breaking up stones for just 5,000 Shillings a month – that’s about US$3. more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Africa, Uganda | Tags: refugees, child labor, humanitarian, Joanne Offer in Uganda | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on July 31st, 2008
In December 1979, the Soviet Union airlifted troops into the mountainous country of Afghanistan. The Soviets and their Afghan allies took the capital, Kabul, and launched nine years of war with indigenous resistance groups. Thus began three decades of conflict and massive displacement for the Afghan people, along with the devastation of their country. more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Pakistan | Tags: refugees, Afghans, Hamid Karzai, humanitarian, Mohammed Haneef Atmar, conflict | 3 Comments
Posted by tim.lash on July 24th, 2008
Posted in Advocacy, Iraqi Refugees, Humanitarian Aid, Iraq, Jordan | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, the IRC | 1 Comments
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on July 9th, 2008
Posted in Advocacy, Iraqi Refugees, Humanitarian Aid, Iraq, Jordan | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, the IRC | 7 Comments
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