“First she must trust in herself,” Razia Sultana says. “She must grow the confidence to say: Yes I can. I am not a burden. If women can think that, they can achieve anything.”

The IRC is responding to COVID-19 in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, home to more than 1 million Rohingya refugees.

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Forced to flee war-torn Nova Kakhovka, Anna Lukina lost everything—but not her drive to help others. In Odesa, she turned her skills as a hairdresser into a mission, offering free beauty services and career training to displaced women. Now, through her NGO and the support of the IRC, she’s rebuilding lives in Ukraine.

Each year, the IRC lists the countries at greatest risk of worsening humanitarian crisis over the coming year.

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