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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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May 16, 2013
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Posted by Peter.Biro on July 6th, 2012
Ripping up clouds of red dust, the IRC ambulance flies along the potholed roads leading to the South Sudanese town of Aweil. Inside, 19-year-old Arek Mawien lies on a stretcher grimacing in pain as she struggles to give birth to her first baby. more »
Posted in Health, Women, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: midwives, mothers, maternal mortality, maternal health, traditional birth attendants | 1 Comments
Posted by Peter.Biro on June 28th, 2012
With up to 1,000 refugees arriving every day in South Sudan’s remote Yida refugee camp, the IRC is warning of rapidly deteriorating situation as food and water is running out. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Gender based Violence, Health, Women, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: refugees, Sudanese refugees, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Yida |
Posted by The.IRC on June 22nd, 2012
A teenage survivor of sexual assault who received counseling at an IRC center in Sierra Leone tells her story to The Irish Times ... plus other recent media coverage touching on the IRC's work around the world. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Women, Domestic Violence, Sierra Leone | Tags: refugees, news, humanitarian aid |
Posted by The.IRC on June 21st, 2012
Poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence are common in villages like Paulina Acayo's that are recovering from the long and brutal Lord’s Resistance Army conflict in northern Uganda. more »
Posted in Post conflict, Women, Domestic Violence, Africa, Uganda | Tags: domestic violence, conflict, women, women_LRA, VSLA |
Posted by Sinziana.Demian on June 11th, 2012
For more than 15 years, millions of people in eastern Congo have lived under constant threat of violence or suffered brutal attacks. One mother shares her story of survival. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Mothers, Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: South Kivu, conflict, poverty, Rapid Response to Population Movements |
Posted by The.IRC on June 7th, 2012
Meet Christine Amunu, a member of an IRC Village Savings and Loans Association in northern Uganda that is helping families who were uprooted by the LRA conflict to recover and rebuild. more »
Posted in Women, Domestic Violence, Africa, Uganda | Tags: domestic violence, women_LRA |
Posted by The.IRC on June 1st, 2012
Syrian civilians continue to flee their homes to escape a new surge of violence more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Women, Urban Refugees, Syria Crisis, Syria |
Posted by The.IRC on May 24th, 2012
After listening to women in West Africa talk about the abuses they had suffered at the hands of their husbands and boyfriends, journalist Susan Dentzer and the other members of the IRC Commission on Domestic Violence brought the women's plea for change to government officials. more »
Posted in Women, Domestic Violence, Africa, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone | Tags: domestic violence |
Posted by The.IRC on May 23rd, 2012
This photo was taken as part of Global Crescendo, an IRC project that enables women to document their lives through digital cameras and use pictures to tell their stories in their communities. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Women, Domestic Violence, Africa, Ivory Coast | Tags: domestic violence, Global Crescendo |
Posted by The.IRC on May 22nd, 2012
In West Africa, 6 out of every 10 women who come to the IRC seeking assistance after experiencing violence are reporting violence at the hands of a partner or spouse. Read one 21-year-old woman's story. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Women, Domestic Violence, Africa, Liberia | Tags: domestic violence | 2 Comments
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