A woman carries a full jerry can after collecting water at a communal tap on the outskirts of Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp.

IRC president George Rupp (back row, left) and other members of the IRC Commission on Domestic Violence meet with representatives of SOAP, or Servants Of All Prayer in Monrovia, Liberia. SOAP is an IRC partner focused on engaging spiritual leaders from throughout Liberia in ending violence against women.

IRC president George Rupp (back row, left) and other members of the IRC Commission on Domestic Violence meet with representatives of SOAP, or Servants Of All Prayer in Monrovia, Liberia. SOAP is an IRC partner focused on engaging spiritual leaders from throughout Liberia in ending violence against women.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia

Solutions for the problem of domestic violence include training women to operate their own small businesses, as the IRC is doing in a number of programs worldwide.

IRC staff and commission members meet with women in Liberia's capital city, Monrovia, to explore the problem of abuse at home.  Six out of every 10 women who seek assistance from the IRC in West Africa do so because of domestic violence.

Police officers in Iraqi Kurdistan attending IRC women's awareness training

IRC Voice Sarah Wayne Callies with Annabelle Mubi (left), who runs the IRC's women's protection and empowerment programs in the Site One refugee camp on the Thailand-Myanmar border.

Women collect materials to build shelter, Yida Refugee Camp, Unity State, South Sudan