Both Des Moines and Iowa City offices were able to accomplish so much in 2024 thanks to our dedicated staff, volunteers/interns, and supporters! We are grateful to continue assisting refugees in building their lives as new Iowans.

The Muppets are embarking on humanitarian missions. In spring 2016, Sherrie Westin, executive vice president of global impact and philanthropy for the Sesame Workshop, and Sarah Smith, a director at the International Rescue Committee, announced a collaboration to develop educational programs for refugee children.

Italy has agreed a deal with Albania that will detain up to 36,000 asylum seekers outside of EU borders. Find out more.

A rapidly urbanizing world presents both challenges and opportunities for humanitarian aid approaches. Urban areas often have a greater density of people and diversity of affected populations, stronger civil society, and more developed and complex governance structures, service delivery systems, and market systems. These factors heighten the importance of coordination and collaboration.

This is what you need to know on the three-year mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In February, the IRC in Salt Lake City, alongside community partners, hosted two virtual events, the Food Entrepreneur Round Table and the New American Dream Lab, to engage refugee and new American entrepreneurs. The events were generously sponsored and presented by Comcast.