The IRC's "At a Glance" report provides a summary of this year's Emergency Watchlist, highlighting key findings and recommendations from the top 20 countries most at risk of new or worsening humanitarian crises in the year ahead.

Samira*’s children are the center of her world. In her hometown in northeast Syria, she spends her days taking care of her children, preparing food, and cleaning the house. Two of her children go to kindergarten in the morning, while the youngest one stays home. After her husband returns home from his job as a school teacher, they sometimes go outdoors to spend time together as a family.

When Salem, 39, and his family of six became sick with cholera, they didn’t know what had hit them. As a fisherman by trade, he thought the fish he had brought home might have caused them to fall ill.

The IRC collaborated with illustrator Paul Blow to depict the journeys of people making it along the Central Mediterranean Route.

IRC’s Nancy Dent describes her experiences confronting the largest European refugee crisis since WWII.