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Melanne Verveer's Wake Up Call

Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, calls for everyone to do their part to ensure that women and girls can reach their full potential in communities around the world.

From Cambodia to Congo, women and girls face violence and discrimination. Yet each day people are fighting to create a better world. Find out how they are changing lives despite incredible obstacles.
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Eric Schwartz’s Wake Up Call

Eric Schwartz, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, shares his first hand experience traveling in Chad. At a refugee camp, he witnessed the powerful role that women can play in the decision-making process to transform the communities and societies they live in.

From Cambodia to Congo, women and girls face violence and discrimination. Yet each day people are fighting to create a better world. Find out how they are changing lives despite incredible obstacles.


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Helping refugee children

36 million refugees live in camps worldwide. Half of them are children. Learn how the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is helping children to survive and thrive in the midst of conflict and disaster -- and meet two women who are a driving force behind this work: Jodie Eastman and Susan Patricof. Both were honored at the IRC's Children's Lunch on May 17, 2011.
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A girl's journey in West Africa

The IRC is helping a young generation at each step of their lives, from infancy to skills training.
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Thong Nguyen's refugee journey

Thong Nguyen's father was a ranking member of the South Vietnamese military and in 1975, with Saigon about to fall to the North Vietnamese army, flight was the only option. The family reached New York, and for a year, Nguyen, his parents and five siblings lived in a small apartment on the Upper West Side. Nguyen later won a scholarship to Columbia, earning a mechanical engineering degree, then an MBA.
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Trinh Doan’s refugee journey

After Trinh Doan’s home city of Da Nang fell to the North Vietnamese in 1975, her father – a university professor – was sentenced to indefinite house arrest.  In 1979, her family fled, making a two-week voyage in a wooden boat to Hong Kong, where they got help from the IRC.  Two years later an IRC representative met their plane on a chilly October day in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 
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Eskinder Negash's refugee journey

Born in Ethiopia in 1956, Eskinder Negash enjoyed a happy childhood with his 12 brothers and sisters -- but that changed in 1974, when Emperor Haile Selassie was removed from power by a Soviet-backed military coup.

The communist regime executed dozens of Ethiopian leaders and persecuted potential opponents.

In 1980, Negash fled alone to Sudan, where he became the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) first staff member in that part of the country.
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Thank you from Haiti

Children in one of IRC's child friendly spaces in Haiti offer thanks to all our loyal supporters who make the IRC's work possible around the globe.
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Ten Refugees, One Journey

Hear the personal stories of ten distinguished men and women who fled tyranny and persecution and who have made the most of the opportunity to begin again and thrive in the U.S.

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Hidden Voices: Urban Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya

Hidden Voices: Urban Refugees is a video produced by the International Rescue Committee and MediaServe International. The short film highlights the daily struggles facing thousands of urban refugees living in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi. In their own words, the refugees tell of how they face poverty, harassment and violence as they make their way in the urban environment.

The video illustrates the many issues highlighted in a new report Hidden and Exposed: Urban Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya.

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