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A Rohingya refugee man from Myanmar carries his two-year-old son through nearly knee-deep flood waters in a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

What you need to know about the crisis in Myanmar

A pregnant Venezuelan woman rests her hand on her stomach in Colombia

Keeping mothers and babies safe during a pandemic

Robert, Edith and their young daughter and son stand for a photo on the sidewalk outside their home in Arizona

Refugee resettlement

President Biden lifts a Trump-era limit on refugees: the facts

A seated refugee man holds a flag at a citizenship ceremony in Virginia

Biden-Harris Administration

The first 100 days: How President Biden can support refugees and asylum seekers

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Three women, one older and two middle aged, sit at a table with a red and white table clothe. They are smiling and the older woman is kissing the woman on her left. They are all refugees.

Presidential determination

Why should America take in more refugees? Get the facts on the refugee cap.

A nurse wearing a mask and PPE holds a Vaccine for All sign at the IRC clinic where she works in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

Coronavirus response

The only way to stop COVID-19? Vaccines for all

Inside the IRC’s work with asylum seekers in the U.S.

A teenage girl, holding a stick and looking at the camera, stands in a drought affected very dry landscape with mountains in the distance.

How climate change drives humanitarian crises

Patrice and his wife on a video call talking with their daughter

Refugee resettlement

As President Biden maintains Trump-era refugee cap, families remain apart

Syrian sisters resettled in Baltimore

#RefugeesWelcome

How the U.S. refugee vetting and resettlement process really works

A little girl smiles and looks at a cow puppet while sitting on the ground with other children in Yemen

Learning through play

The puppet show teaching children in Yemen how to protect themselves from COVID-19

Maha al-Obaidi sits on a park bench looking off into the distance and holding a U.S. citizenship test study book.

Biden Administration

President Biden could admit the lowest number of refugees in history

Coronavirus response

What front-line health workers learned after a year fighting COVID-19

A young girl stands to speak, hands clasped, in a classroom in Afghanistan.

2021 Emergency Watchlist

Crisis in Afghanistan: Stalled peace process under threat

Press releases

The IRC is extremely concerned about the safety of migrants and refugees being returned to Libya

Tigray six months on; women still bear the brunt of conflict, warns IRC

IRC: President Biden’s refugee decision “Good for America, Good for Refugees”

As a car bomb in Afghanistan claims the lives of 30 civilians, IRC warns the US cannot afford to turn its back

IRC's Asylum & Families Coordinator Beth Strano US Senate Committee Testimony on Homeland Security

South Sudan; statement following attack on IRC staff