Site search | The IRC

2009 Results Showing results 241-250

Little girl braves cancer amid the war in Yemen
Conflict in Yemen has unleashed one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises. Those with life-threatening illnesses, like Yousra, don’t have access to the treatment they need.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Stand with #TeamRefugees
For the first time ever, a small team of international refugee athletes are competing at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this year — representing the some 65 million people displaced by war, conflict and persecution.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Restoring Lost Hope for Out-of-School Learners
The International Rescue Committee’s partnership with Education Above All Foundation (EAA)through their Educate A Child (EAC) program, aims to address this education gap through contextual-based solutions that meet the specific needs of children like Hauwa in conflict-affected communities in northeast Nigeria
- Announcement
- September 9, 2022
The siege of Sarajevo and beyond
For over a decade, the IRC provided food, water, and medicine to people trapped in a region enveloped in conflict.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Mental health at the International Rescue Committee
the IRC is dedicated to helping people affected by conflict access mental health and psychosocial support. We work to ensure that people can receive care and manage treatment for themselves and their families, from the earliest stages of crisis through recovery.
- Resource
- October 10, 2016
Beyond COVID-19: Test your knowledge of the world's worst crises
Test your knowledge of humanitarian emergencies, then learn more about 10 crises the IRC expects to worsen over the course of the year—and what can be done to help.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Migrants, asylum seekers, IDPs, refugees and immigrants: What’s the difference?
Learn the difference between refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants—and how the IRC helps people forced to flee crisis and conflict.
- Article
- August 11, 2025
Support Afghan evacuees and other new Americans
Many folks recently have been asking for ways to support Afghan evacuees and other survivors of conflict and persecution served by the IRC in Turlock/Modesto. Here is a list of ways to help.
- Announcement
- September 21, 2021
What you need to know about the crisis in Myanmar
The sudden return to military rule in Myanmar has raised alarms about the future of the southeast Asian nation. Learn more about the Myanmar crisis.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Inside Syria: Life on one piece of bread a day
An International Rescue Committee aid worker (his identity obscured for security reasons) takes us inside Areesha displacement camp, northeast Syria. Here 43,000 people who fled ISIS are crowded into a camp built for less than half that number. Some 25,000 people are living on one piece of bread a day. Others have nothing to eat. The IRC is responding with emergency meals, which we have distributed to 5,000 families.
- Video
- June 22, 2022