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Morena Baccarin meets resilient Venezuelan refugee mothers

January 18, 2019

Watch and share their stories

Refugees in Colombia

The Venezuelan crisis explained in 10 objects

January 18, 2019

Carina plays with her daughter Kimberly in her lap, camped alongside other Venezuelan refugees

Behind the headlines

Why are Venezuelans leaving their country?

January 17, 2019

Cing, Cing and Cing are friends from Myanmar who now live near Seattle with their families.

IRC and The Neediest Cases

In The New York Times: 6 stories of uncertainty, hope and triumph

December 31, 2018

A family fleeing violence in Honduras waits to cross into Mexico on their way to seek asylum in the U.S.

Behind the headlines

What you wanted to know about refugees, asylum and crisis in 2018

December 28, 2018

Families seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border are detained

Central American caravans

Families seeking asylum from violence in Central America are not criminals

December 20, 2018

10-year-old Yousif holds a plate of shakar lama cookies with his mom, Taghreed

A recipe for love

Hi, I’m Yousif from Iraq and I want you to meet my super mom

December 20, 2018

Meryl Streep: Why I support the International Rescue Committee

December 17, 2018

A severely malnourished child sleeps on a mattress on the ground at a Mogadishu hospital

Humanitarian aid

The top 10 crises the world should be watching for 2019

December 17, 2018

Three children in Yemen

Americans agree—it's time to stop fueling the war in Yemen

December 13, 2018

The second largest Ebola outbreak in history is happening now

December 13, 2018

This woman walked for seven days to escape the crisis in Venezuela

December 13, 2018

Syrian refugee with her baby daughter at a tented settlement in Lebanon

The will to learn: how education helps save young refugee lives

December 13, 2018

Clients participate in programs inside the IRC office in Boise.

Stop public charge changes that harm immigrant families

December 11, 2018

Press releases

Election-related violence in Democratic Republic of Congo forces IRC to temporarily suspend life-saving Ebola response programming

December 29, 2018

First UN Security Council Resolution on Yemen in four years is a long overdue step toward ending war

December 21, 2018

As holiday season approaches, IRC Voice Morena Baccarin calls for support to Venezuelan refugees caught in largest refugee crisis in Latin American history

December 21, 2018

U.S. Border Announcement Continues Systematic Degradation of Legal Routes to Protection

December 20, 2018

Postponement of elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo is extremely dangerous

December 20, 2018

Hundreds of thousands at risk from imminent military action in northeast Syria, warns the IRC

December 20, 2018