Over 1,400 people, including nearly 460 children, have been killed as the country is hit by severe flooding.

The new administration will need to think big in order to help the record number of people facing conflict and crises around the world.

Many of the International Rescue Committee’s over 20 offices across the United States are helping families arriving from Afghanistan.

With the help of volunteers from AirBnB, 46 community members applied for U.S. Citizenship at a recent IRC Citizenship Workshop.

As a way of tackling the ongoing displacement crisis and issues faced by these clients, the IRC is focusing on community engagement to help with the integration of resettled refugees into our local communities, through a new Co-Sponsorship Program. 

Update! Watch the October 7th webinar recording on IRC's Afghan Emergency Response in the US

8,300 refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are living in deplorable conditions in an overcrowded refugee camp in Moria, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Most are in the process of making asylum claims after feeling danger in their countries, but shortages and high tension in the camp are making life unsafe in the camp.

The IRC has released its 2021 Emergency Watchlist, a global list of humanitarian crises that are expected to deteriorate the most over the coming year.

Earlier this year the IRC in Greece hosted cooking workshops for refugee and local women living on the Greek island of Lesbos. Some of the women who took part talked to us about their experience and shared the recipe of the dish they shared with the group. Hafeza shares her recipe for Afghan Bolani.