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Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on June 14th, 2013
I first met Abdallah Ibrahim Yare in Dadaab complex, home to 500,000 refugees, two years ago at the height of the famine in Somalia. He and his family, along with thousands of others, had trekked for days to Kenya in search of food and safety. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, hunger, malnutrition, Somali refugees, Dadaab, Aden Abdallah Ibrahim |
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on June 11th, 2013
The IRC in Kenya has been responding to a polio outbreak in the world’s largest refugee complex, Dadaab. The five camps in this sprawling complex house almost half a million refugees, mainly from Somalia. more »
Posted by The.IRC on June 6th, 2013
Women who survive violence are often wracked with guilt and suffer blame unjustly projected upon them by their communities and society generally. With Cognitive Processing Therapy, I have learned to engage these women in discussions about guilt and its resulting emotions, and about how to overcome such feelings. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Research, Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: Sexual Violence, mental health, Cognitive Processing Therapy | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on June 6th, 2013
Violence against women and girls is a significant problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The results of a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine show that overall trauma symptoms decreased roughly twice as much among survivors who received group therapy compared to those who did not. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Research, Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: Sexual Violence, conflict, women, rape, research, Cognitive Processing Therapy |
Posted by The.IRC on June 5th, 2013
Hope for sexual violence survivors in war zones as study in Congo reveals dramatic impact of group therapy: Women "have been able to turn their lives around," says the IRC's Catherine Poulton. more »
Posted in Gender based Violence, Health, Research, Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: GBV, health, Sexual Violence, women, research, group therapy, post traumatic stress disorder |
Posted by The.IRC on May 31st, 2013
David Miliband, former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, blogs in Huffington Post UK about his visit this week to International Rescue Committee programs in Kenya. Miliband will succeed George Rupp as the IRC’s president and CEO in September. more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Urban Refugees, Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, urban refugees, humanitarian aid, David Miliband |
Posted by The.IRC on May 17th, 2013
Young mothers celebrate their graduation from an IRC parenting program last week in northern Uganda. During two decades of war, many young women were separated from their parents or lacked positive parental role models. more »
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on May 15th, 2013
Since 2009, the IRC has trained and equipped nearly 700 volunteers in northern Uganda to provide lifesaving health care to children in remote communities struggling to recover from a decade of civil war. Meet two of these dedicated health workers. more »
Posted in Health, Post conflict, Africa, Uganda | Tags: health, Kitgum, LRA, community health workers, Lamwo, child health | 6 Comments
Posted by aisha.bain on May 9th, 2013
The women's collective Femmes Lèves-Toi (Women, Rise Up) is a force for change in eastern Congo, starting at the community level. The IRC's Aisha Bain recounts an inspiring meeting with its members. on the Huffington Post. more »
Posted in Women, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: women |
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on May 8th, 2013
Cavine Akello sells traditional pancakes at a market stall in Kitgum, Uganda. An IRC program for young mothers helped her to save enough to open her business. Since the rebel Lord's Resistance Army was driven from the region, thousands of people have returned from displacement camps to rebuild their communities. more »
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