Earlier this year, Mary and Jeff Coursey contributed $14,000 raised to the IRC in Salt Lake City in honor of their daughter's, Maura, memory and to inspire others to take action in their community. With these funds, we have established the Maura Coursey Memorial Fund in support of survivors of domestic and gender-based violence in Utah.

Bayard Rustin, chief architect of the 1963 March on Washington and a beloved member of the IRC Board, spent his life confronting injustice and refusing to accept the status quo.

President Donald Trump has claimed that refugees coming into the United States are not screened. The truth is that refugees are already vetted more intensively than any other group seeking to enter the country. Four refugees describe the exhaustive interviews and security checks they and their families went through to resettle in the U.S.

Each year, the U.S. offices of the IRC host special programs and events to help refugees during the holiday season. Find out how you can spread holiday cheer -- and help all year.

It is no exaggeration that the future of the United States as a home for refugees is now on the line. New IRC data shows there are even fewer refugee arrivals in the U.S. than expected.

Nearly two and half years after President Obama’s Executive Action offering the opportunity for minors from Central America to access the refugee resettlement program, Hilda Galvez, a Honduran native, cried joyfully as her five-year-old son, Ever, was escorted through the gate at Newark Airport near midnight on March 9, 2017.