×

Search form

Latest

Get the latest news, photos and videos spotlighting the world's worst humanitarian crises and the International Rescue Committee's work helping people devastated by conflict and disaster.

teacher Misra Hussein Ahmed wears a COVID-19 face mask while standing outside her temporary classroom made of branches in an Ethiopian displacement camp.
Crisis Watch

Omicron: Triple threat of COVID, conflict, climate change in Africa

November 30, 2021
Learn more
Video

IRC Ambassadors on why they support our work with refugees

November 30, 2021
Watch the video
Volunteers work with refugees in an ESL class at the IRC resettlement office in New York
Giving Tuesday

How to help refugees in the United States: 10 ways to stand for welcome

November 29, 2021
10 ways to get involved
An Afghan woman displaced by drought sits holding her baby inside a tent.
Afghanistan crisis

What next for Afghanistan? A hunger crisis

November 24, 2021
Learn more
A woman sits wrapped in a sleeping bag in a makeshift camp at the Polish border with Belarus.
Seeking asylum
What is happening at the Belarus-Poland border?
November 24, 2021
HIba and Maason, Syrian-Kurdish refugees in England, look out a window with their 4-tear-old daughter Nasrin.
Refugee resettlement
A new life for 4-year-old Nasrin
November 23, 2021
An Afghan mother sits in a tent with her young boys at a makeshift IDP camp.
Afghanistan crisis
What is happening to women and girls in Afghanistan?
November 23, 2021
Video

"My children give me strength and courage": life as a refugee in the UK

November 23, 2021
Map of the world
Emergency response
Crisis Watch: Breaking news from the IRC
November 22, 2021
A Nigerian mother smiles and holds her baby who is wrapped in a blanket.
Nigeria
Celebrating new life after a difficult pregnancy
November 19, 2021
A headshot of actor Rami Malek
Refugees welcome
How celebrities supported refugees this year
November 19, 2021
Video

Rami Malek: Why I support the International Rescue Committee

November 18, 2021
Video

Watch the moment Afghan brothers are reunited after 11 years

November 15, 2021
Mehdi, 29, takes a selfie with his brother Ali, 17, in Frankfort airpurt after the brothers, who are Afghan refugees, were reunited in Germany.
Afghanistan crisis
After 11 years, Afghan brothers are reunited
November 15, 2021

Press releases

Situation at the Poland-Belarus border is untenable - IRC warns more lives will be lost without rapid de-escalation and cooperation on all sides
November 22, 2021
IRC calls for bold action around Blinken Africa visit
November 19, 2021
The International Rescue Committee welcomes Rami Malek as their newest IRC Ambassador
November 19, 2021
David Miliband's speech at the AidEx 10th Anniversary Conference: Civil Society and the Age of Impunity
November 17, 2021
Kenya: IRC welcomes President Kenyatta’s move to sign the Refugee Bill into law
November 17, 2021
IRC report: Unaccompanied children in Europe remain in danger, as 74% decisions for family reunification from Greece are negative
November 16, 2021

Visit our media center

×
Help us send emergency aid to Afghanistan and crisis zones worldwide.Donate now