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.

For over a decade, the IRC provided food, water, and medicine to people trapped in a region enveloped in conflict.

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

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.

Learn the difference between refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants—and how the IRC helps people forced to flee crisis and conflict.

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.

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.

This case study explores how the IRC and Sesame Workshop worked together through the Ahlan Simsim initiative to make early childhood development more inclusive for children with disabilities affected by conflict in the Middle East