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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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Call members of Senate Judiciary Ctte & ask them to retain #CIR provisions that protect refugees & asylees t.co/xLIoPRWloc #CIRmarkup
May 20, 2013
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#CIRmarkup: Sec. 3405 of U.S. #CIR bill is in markup right now. It contains important protections for #refugees, asylees & stateless people.
May 20, 2013
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Women
Posted by The.IRC on September 26th, 2012
Our partner Half the Sky Movement is shining a light on violence against women. Join the conversation with #halfthesky on Facebook or Twitter to get added to their global photo mosaic. more »
Posted in Women | Tags: photos, women, Half the Sky | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on August 22nd, 2012
Some 40,000 refugees from the brutal conflict in Syria have fled to neighboring Lebanon. More than half of them are women and girls. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Gender based Violence, Women, Syria Crisis, Lebanon | Tags: refugees, violence against women, emergency response, humanitarian aid, Syrian refugees |
Posted by The.IRC on August 21st, 2012
The primary threat to women in West Africa is not war or armed gangs, it’s their husbands. The IRC has enlisted the help of 450 marketing students from around the world to raise awareness about domestic violence. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Women, Domestic Violence, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone | Tags: domestic violence, women, IRC Think-in | 1 Comments
Posted by carrie.welch on August 16th, 2012
Today nearly 450 of the brightest minds in advertising are expected to come together in Sweden at Hyper Island. They have four days to address a neglected humanitarian crisis: domestic violence in developing countries. more »
Posted by Sinziana.Demian on August 8th, 2012
Thanks to IRC-supported village savings groups, women once destitute are now opening small businesses, acquiring plots of land, raising animals, and contributing to daily expenses in their households. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: North Kivu, livelihoods, South Kivu, conflict, women, poverty, VSLA | 1 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on August 7th, 2012
At a recent Capitol Hill briefing, IRC vice president Michael Kocher shone a spotlight on the unmet humanitarian needs of Syrian women and girls who have been targeted by sexual violence. more »
Posted in Advocacy, Emergency Response, Gender based Violence, Women, Syria Crisis, Domestic Violence, Syria, Middle East, Jordan | Tags: refugees, emergency relief, sexual assault, gender-based violence, conflict, humanitarian aid, human trafficking, Syrian refugees, Syrian crisis, early marriage |
Posted by The.IRC on August 2nd, 2012
"Half the Sky" authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn shine a spotlight on violence against women in a new video that features the IRC's Amie Kandeh. more »
Posted in Advocacy, Gender based Violence, Women, Domestic Violence, Africa, Sierra Leone | Tags: video, domestic violence, Nicholas Kristof, violence against women, women, Half the Sky | 2 Comments
Posted by Ned Colt on July 31st, 2012
Already at work supporting Syrian refugees in Jordan, the IRC is exploring needs for the growing refugee population in Lebanon. A recent upsurge in violence in Syria prompted tens of thousands of Syrians to flee in just two days. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Gender based Violence, Women, Syria Crisis, Middle East, Lebanon | Tags: refugees, emergency relief, violence against women, women, humanitarian aid, Syrian refugees, Syria crisis |
Posted by Sinziana.Demian on July 19th, 2012
The IRC has played a decisive role in containing a major cholera outbreak in Congo's North Kivu province, where armed violence has uprooted more than 200,000 people since April. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Gender based Violence, Health, Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: emergency relief, conflict, cholera, humanitarian aid |
Posted by The.IRC on July 16th, 2012
What would it be like to have to leave your home, your community, your country? Follow the journal of 12-year-old Amina, who was forced to flee Mogadishu with her mother and 6 siblings after her father was killed as a result of the fierce violence roiling Somalia. more »
Posted in Advocacy, Gender based Violence, Women, Africa | Tags: girls, Women's Refugee Commission, women |
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