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@LCO_orchestra @RiyadNicolas @cadoganhall Hope it's an amazing night! Thanks for your support.
May 17, 2013
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RT @DCComics: Amazing. 2.6k of you gave $150K+ to #WeCanBeHeroes. Big thanks from DCComics @SavetheChildren @mercycorps @theIRC t.co…
May 17, 2013
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Cyclone Mahasan update: It spared Myanmar almost entirely, and the storm’s impact in Rakhine State was minimal.
May 17, 2013
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Cyclone Mahasan update: Storm weakened & then dissipated Thurs, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh.
May 17, 2013
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Call Senate Judiciary Cttee & urge them to pass #CIR that includes protections for asylees & #refugees: t.co/4OQrSoAGVt #CIRmarkup
May 16, 2013
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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 in Humanitarian Aid | Tags: refugees, IDPs, unhcr, conflict, humanitarian aid, persecution | 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 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 in Emergency Response, Africa | Tags: IDPs, conflict, Libya, humanitarian aid, IRC, Tuarga |
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 in Emergency Response, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: humanitarian, IDPs, refugee camps, education, conflict, Pakistan, Jalozai | 4 Comments
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on February 26th, 2009
Posted in Children & Youth, Women | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, IDPs, Women’s Refugee Commission |
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