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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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Sexual Violence
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 The.IRC on November 11th, 2010
This summer I traveled to the Dadaab region in Kenya, where three refugee camps—among the largest in the world—host nearly 300,000 refugees. In the camps, I met refugee women who talked with me about their struggle to find enough firewood to cook for their families. more »
Posted in Women, Kenya | Tags: refugees, refugee camps, Sexual Violence, livelihoods, Women's Refugee Commission, Kenya, conflict, Dadaab refugee camps, Somali refugees, fuel and firewood, women |
Posted by The.IRC on July 29th, 2010
Heidi Lehman, the IRC's director of the gender-based violence unit, is in Haiti this month. She describes an IRC program that trains Haitian women to support victims of sexual violence in Teleco camp and other settlements where people displaced by the earthquake now live. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Haiti | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Sexual Violence, gender-based violence, displaced people | 1 Comments
Posted by Peter.Biro on March 11th, 2010
In an unassuming house on the outskirts of the Thai city of Mae Sot lies the office of Social Action for Women (SAW), an IRC-supported organization that helps survivors of rape, domestic violence, trafficking and other abuse. On a recent visit to their shelter, I met Ngelay, a 16-year-old Burmese girl who narrowly escaped being sold into marriage by her mother. more »
Posted in Women, Thailand | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Sexual Violence, Trafficking | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on March 8th, 2010
When a man from her village raped Esse, he was fined $65 for his crime, just over a month’s wages in impoverished Central African Republic. The village chief considered the matter to be “settled.” The IRC reached out to help her. more »
Posted in Women, Central African Republic | Tags: Sexual Violence, women |
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 tim.lash on June 24th, 2009
Last year we launched a very special online campaign, asking people to send personal messages to survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We wanted to show support for women and girls in Congo by sharing with them messages of solidarity and encouragement from around the world. more »
Posted in Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: refugees, DR Congo, GBV, humanitarian, Sexual Violence, Advocacy, conflict | 3 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on December 10th, 2008
Posted in Women, Africa | Tags: refugees, 16 Days, 16 Days against Gender Violence, humanitarian, Sexual Violence | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on December 10th, 2008
Posted in Women, Thailand | Tags: refugees, Ann Jones in Thailand, domestic violence, humanitarian, Sexual Violence | 1 Comments
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