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Ukraine: Europe’s largest displacement crisis in decades
An intense war in Ukraine has created mass displacement and is fueling a humanitarian crisis unlike any in Europe since World War II.
- Article
- April 10, 2023
Migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants: What’s the difference?
What is a refugee? Who is an immigrant? Get the facts.
- Article
- January 24, 2025
Women Balance Money to Stabilize the Future in Economic Empowerment Program
In the IRC’s new women’s economic empowerment program, low-income immigrant women learn to manage their families’ resources and navigate the American financial system.
- Announcement
- July 5, 2017
Meet the IRC doctors fighting against malnutrition in Somalia
Dr. Abdullahi Mohamed and Dr. Ahmed Adan are making significant efforts to transform malnutrition prevention and treatment.
- Article
- September 26, 2023
Attacks against healthcare workers in South Sudan is straining an already fragile healthcare system, warns IRC
- Press Release
- November 24, 2022
IRC on World Humanitarian Day: "Our commitment to the safety, security, and support of our staff has never wavered and will remain a priority"
- Press Release
- August 19, 2022
Why is Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis?
The war in Yemen is contributing to what the U.N. says could become "the worst famine in the world in 100 years." 22 million people are in need of aid.
- Article
- July 1, 2022
How the Emergency Rescue Committee became the International Rescue Committee and where we are today
Netflix’s Transatlantic tells the story of how Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee helped thousands of refugees flee France during World War II. Read how the organization became the International Rescue Committee and how we’ve continued to support people facing conflict and crisis for the past 90 years. Through the years 1933 Varian Fry at his office in Marseilles in the spring of 1941.
- About the IRC
IRC laments the news of nearly 40 people dying in the fire at the migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez and calls for stronger protection systems for asylum seekers
- Statement
- March 28, 2023
Provisional Waivers Help Keep Families Together
Angelica did not want to take her family and risk the violence and poverty she had fled in Mexico, nor did she wish to continue living in the shadows of being undocumented in the U.S. She thought the only other option would be to tear their family apart with one parent living on each side of the border.
- Announcement
- March 2, 2017