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David Miliband: witnessing the crisis in Yemen

October 16, 2018

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A health workers writes notes as he examines a child sitting on his father's lap

Follow a mobile health team treating children in Yemen's remotest villages

October 16, 2018

Go inside the health crisis

A young girl wearing a pink floral headscarf in a remote mountain area of Yemen

Crisis in focus

Why is Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis?

October 15, 2018

Here's what you need to know

Go inside a Yemen hospital

October 12, 2018

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Refugees in Germany

For refugee children in Berlin, soccer is a joyful way to start a new life

October 11, 2018

Fighting outbreaks

Emergency in Congo: Ebola meets violent conflict

October 11, 2018

IRC staff member Amy Longa with Nor Kamel, a 19-year-old Rohingya refugee from Myanmar (Burma)

Refugees in America

Forced to close her resettlement office, this woman couldn't turn one last refugee away

October 10, 2018

A Syrian girl in Dana, Idlib

A look into the mental health crisis in Syria

October 9, 2018

Adil Nimr, a refugee from Iraq who escaped ISIS, was reunited with 13 family members in Seattle on Feb. 10 after President Trump’s travel ban was blocked.

#StandWithRefugees

Breaking down the stats as the U.S. plans to cut refugee arrivals to 30,000

October 8, 2018

A drought displaced woman waits to see medical staff at an IRC operated clinic in KM8 IDP camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia.

Behind the headlines: Temporary Protected Status

October 4, 2018

refugees' passports and family photos

Life in a refugee camp

Inside Moria: overcrowding, endless waiting, and despair

October 3, 2018

Our future under fire

September 28, 2018

A Syrian child at a displacement camp in the village of al-Ghadfa in southeast Idlib. Photo: NAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images

Syria’s looming humanitarian disaster: Idlib

September 27, 2018

What happens when the U.S. slashes refugee admissions

September 21, 2018

Press releases

David Miliband, President and CEO of the IRC, gives Bucerius Lecture at German Historical Institute

October 17, 2018

Ebola cases spike in DRC, daily case rate more than doubles since September

October 11, 2018

Finding your safe place at school – through sport and games

October 4, 2018

IRC Reacts: U.S. District Court on TPS

October 3, 2018

Repeated violence in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo leads to temporary suspension of Ebola response activities

September 28, 2018

Mental health needs at Moria are immense. IRC psychologists merely “chipping away at an iceberg"

September 25, 2018