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Crisis news in 60 seconds: Nov 2018

November 15, 2018

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Clients participate in programs inside the IRC office in Boise.

Stop public charge changes that harm immigrant families

November 15, 2018

Hila fled Deir ez-Zor after the area was besieged by ISIS and her home was destroyed

Her family scattered by war, a Syrian grandmother struggles to survive

November 13, 2018

Venezuela's crisis deepens: 1 million refugees flee to Colombia

November 13, 2018

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Violence in El Salvador

Why Central Americans join the caravan: ‘because there’s no scarier place than home’

November 8, 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

November 8, 2018

Tolassa crosses the finish line at 1:22:36

Elite athlete—and refugee—completes his first New York City Marathon

November 6, 2018

Inside Idlib: facing Syria's worst humanitarian crisis?

November 5, 2018

Five-year-old Yousra from Yemen is suffering from cancer in her left eye.

Crisis in Yemen

Little girl braves cancer amid the war in Yemen

November 1, 2018

Crisis news in 60 seconds: Oct 2018

October 30, 2018

Mourning the Pittsburgh attack

IRC President David Miliband's statement on the Pittsburgh attack

October 28, 2018

Central American asylum seekers wait for buses to take them to Tijuana on the U.S.-Mexico border. Photo: Getty Images

Migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants: What’s the difference?

October 25, 2018

A Honduran migrant couple and their five kids taking part in a caravan heading to the US, wait to cross the border from Ciudad Tecun Uman in Guatemala, to Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. Photo: ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images

Flight from violence

Real stories of Central American families searching for safety

October 25, 2018

A mother brings her baby to an IRC health clinic in Yemen

Crisis in Yemen

"We just want peace": an aid worker's hopes and fears for Yemen

October 23, 2018

Press releases

New IRC report: promoting self-reliance for Somali youth living in Kenya

November 15, 2018

New IRC survey shows extreme coping strategies Venezuelans in Colombia are undertaking to survive

November 13, 2018

Time for a new approach to tackling malnutrition, says David Miliband, President and CEO of the IRC

November 13, 2018

Speech by Rt Hon David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee, at the World Innovation Summit for Health in Doha, Qatar

November 13, 2018

UNIQLO Launches “Cards for Hope” Campaign in Support of Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee’s Program for Refugee Children in the Middle East

November 12, 2018

42 NGOs, including the IRC, warn that return of refugees to Myanmar now would be dangerous and premature

November 8, 2018