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Superman, a refugee's success story

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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

A mother's hope for her triplets in a time of hunger and war

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#StandWithRefugees

Superman: hero and refugee

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Rohingya crisis

David Miliband meets Rohingya refugees enduring the monsoon in Bangladesh

Rescue equipment in the entrance of Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand

Some of the boys rescued from a Thai cave are “stateless.” What does that mean?

A young boy with severe acute malnutrition receives treatment at the Banadir District Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

5 things you think you know about famine, and the actual facts

Families detained behind a chain-link fence inside a U.S. Border Patrol facility in Texas

What happens to children who are separated from their parents?

New U.S. citizens taking an oath

Refugees in America

How immigrants and refugees become U.S. citizens

#RefugeesWelcome

Famous refugees

Women and children wait in line to be processed at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in Texas

Forced family separation

David Miliband: 5 lessons that should be learned at the U.S.-Mexico border

Life and death in Libya

Central Americans have the right to seek asylum—here's what you need to know

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

Refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants: What’s the difference?

Press releases

IRC Launches Family Reunification and Recovery Programming at the U.S.-Mexican Border

IRC Statement on U.S. Administration’s decision on Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status

Fears for tens of thousands of Syrians stuck along the Golan Heights as fighting closes in

IRC Statement on U.S. decision on Yemen's Temporary Protected Status

IRC providing urgent health care for fleeing civilians from both sides of Syria-Jordan border

On Ruya Kadir and Boise