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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 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 by Ned Colt on October 26th, 2011
In the wake of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death, tens of thousands of Libyans remain displaced by the almost yearlong conflict in the North African nation. The IRC is working to help them. more »
Posted by Ned Colt on May 3rd, 2011
From my perch atop a twenty foot high clay mound, I am surrounded by a sea of dusty white. I’m looking out over the close to thirty thousand tents that comprise the Jalozai IDP Camp outside of Peshawar. For those of you unfamiliar with refugee acronyms, IDP stands for “internally displaced person.” There are an estimated seventy thousand of them at Jalozai. more »
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on February 26th, 2009

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