International Rescue Committee (IRC)

IRC in the News

IRC Press Coverage

October 4, 2012 - 

With a visit to Sierra Leone, Eva Mendes is helping raise awareness about serious issues affecting girls and women around the world. 

 
 
October 3, 2012 - 

PAUMA VALLEY — Workers labored last week, undeterred by the 90-degree heat bearing down on them in fields full of pumpkins, lettuce, cabbage and mint at a farm in Pauma Valley.

October 3, 2012 - 

No network, including PBS, is above using celebrities as audience bait in the interests of making a difficult documentary subject a little more commercial.

September 26, 2012 - 

Try this tasty wedge salad from chef David Burke in honor of The International Rescue Committee's New Roots program.

September 19, 2012 - 

The biggest challenge more than 100 school-age immigrants faced this summer was learning a new language, navigating a new culture and grasping basic city living skills at Refugee Youth Summer Academy, an education program run by the the International Rescue Committee in New York.

September 7, 2012 - 

 

On an Old East Dallas side street, a black iron fence festooned with sinewy vines stretches the length of an entire block. Peer through the fan of leaves, and you’ll catch a glimpse of rows and rows of densely planted garden plots. Some vegetables are familiar—eggplant, squash, peppers, okra—and some are not— speckled green and white pumpkins, amaranth (appreciated for both its greens and grains), Chinese long beans, Malabar spinach and a plant with leaves the size of baby elephants’ ears.
September 6, 2012 - 

Nonprofit hopes growing plants will help new arrivals stay connected with their homeland