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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 February 28th, 2011
In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel describes how his own refugee experience helped shape some of the most passionate dispatches he ever wrote in his long career with the New York Times. more »
Posted in Resettlement | Tags: refugees, World War II, conflict, german refugees, Max Frankel, Jewish refugees, Hungarian Recolution |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on February 12th, 2008
In 1940, shortly after the world watched the appalling spectacle of Nazi troops goose-stepping down the Champs-Élysées in Paris, a 32-year old American editor by the name of Varian Fry arrived in France to rescue some of Europe’s most famous artists, writers, and intellectuals. more »
Posted in War, Europe | Tags: refugees, Holocaust, humanitarian, Nazis, World War II, IRC history |
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