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Uganda after Kony: Christine Amunu’s Story

Photo: Celine Auma/IRC

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Syria crisis has displaced 500,000 says UN; more families cross border

Syrian refugee Fawaz now lives in Jordan with his wife and nine children in a two room structure that had been abandoned for years before they found it. The roof leaks, and while there's a makeshift toilet, there's no plumbing. They've tapped into a neighbor's utilities for electricity and drinking water. There's very little housing left in Jordan near its border with Syria, and rental prices have more than doubled in the past year due to the influx of refugees.

Photo: Ned Colt/IRC

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The rural women in DRC turning themselves into bankers

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The rural women in DRC turning themselves into bankers
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June 1, 2012
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BBC
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a network of village savings and loans associations has been helping women start up their own businesses.

While the groups receive training and technical assistance from an international charity, all the money they work with comes from their own pockets.

 

Susan Dentzer on domestic violence in West Africa

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.

Photo: Peter Biro/IRC

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Photo Share: "We cannot accept that men beat women"

Photo: Goze Martine/Global Crescendo

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A voice from West Africa

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Domestic violence primary threat to women in post-war West Africa

IRC calls partner abuse a public health crisis that must be placed on humanitarian agenda

Women in post-conflict West Africa continue to suffer violence at alarming levels and with shocking frequency, but the primary threat to their safety is not strangers or men with guns; it’s their husbands, according to the International Rescue Committee.

Quoted: Yida refugee camp in South Sudan remains dangerous for women

Women collect materials to build shelter, Yida refugee camp, Unity State, South Sudan.

Photo: Liz Pender/IRC

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Uganda after Kony: Alice Akoko’s story

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