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Refugees Welcome

One extraordinary single mother's determination to empower women

August 14, 2018

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This family from El Salvador was reunited after 22 years

August 10, 2018

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Paind Khan has been separated from his wife 7 months, waiting to be reunited

Stories from Greece

One budding cook's plan to surprise his wife when they're reunited

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Refugees in Colombia

The Venezuelan crisis explained in 10 objects

One budding cook's plan to surprise his wife

John photographed facing away from the camera

Tortured and on the run from militias

Refugees in America

Meet three refugee girls with a passion for rock climbing

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Geeta's proudest moment

A two-year-old child and her mother from Honduras are taken into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas.

Crisis at the U.S. border

Families seeking asylum from violence in Central America are not criminals

Life and Death in Libya

How friendship "united the four of us as one"

A group of migrant women

Lost in the desert or drowned at sea

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

A newborn Rohingya boy in his mother's arms

Rohingya crisis

Starting life in the world’s biggest refugee camp

Press releases

Attack today hitting school bus and killing children, another atrocity of Yemen war

IRC condemns attack on fish market in Hodeidah City

TripAdvisor and the International Rescue Committee launch ‘Welcome Home’ campaign to support refugee resettlement and integration in the U.S.

IRC staff member killed in attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan

Yemen: IRC-supported health facility damaged overnight as the Saudi-led Coalition launches airstrikes in Hodeidah city

IRC statement on Trump Administration's failure to meet July 26th deadline to reunite families