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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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RT @MoveEndViolence: Why do we need a #movement to end #VAWG? #MovementMaker Heidi Lehmann of @theIRC on the blog. t.co/H74c80BdAs
May 20, 2013
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@Doylech @oneworldadopt @Just_Naomi_chan @socialfund @AFRIpads @tamaraduker @lynndalsing @HuTerra @scribblymouse thanks for your support!
May 20, 2013
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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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Varian Fry
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on August 6th, 2010
It was 70 years ago this week — August 4, 1940 — that the IRC’s Varian Fry boarded a transatlantic flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York on his way to German-occupied France on a mission to rescue 200 leading artists and intellectuals who were on the Nazis’ most-wanted list. more »
Posted in War, Europe | Tags: refugees, Nazis, rescue, WWII, IRC history, Varian Fry, France |
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