IRC in the News
Members of the Nepali-speaking, Bhutanese community celebrated Hemlata Pokhrel's marriage to Sashi Dhakal in the Hindu faith and tradition. The couple met while attending school in the refugee camps in Nepal.
For a few moments in Lee Park on Saturday morning, it seemed as though the skilled hands of the Morro Azul Samba School percussion ensemble had cultivated world peace.
The International Rescue Committee, the brainchild of Albert Einstein, helps refugees rebuild their lives in America -- and learn a whole new world of food.
After more than two decades of civil war, Somalia’s capital is enjoying a sense of relative calm. But Mogadishu is still struggling to recover from the fighting. Compounding the challenge are the tens of thousands of people who have fled south-central Somalia to live in squalid camps in the city.
The UN high commissioner for refugees has warned that the world is standing on the precipice of a global humanitarian crisis, one that the international community is unprepared and ill-equipped to face.
International Rescue Committee president, George Rupp, is listed as one of the "500 most powerful people on the planet."
Sitting at the kitchen table in her modest apartment, Jaya Laxchi Rai recounted her family’s journey: fleeing from ethnic persecution in Bhutan, living in a Nepali refugee camp and arriving in the U.S. almost two years ago.
An Iraqi refugee has found new life as a security guard at Chihuly Garden and Glass.





