Refugees are changemakers, and the IRC in Boise is proud to know and support Wahid who makes change through his voice.

A compound crisis of armed conflict and climate change is driving unprecedented levels of humanitarian need, displacement and food insecurity in the Central Sahel: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. But these impacts are distributed neither equally nor randomly across the region. This report examines how political decisions dating from the French colonial rule through the early 2000s have marginalized peripheral areas of the Central Sahel states both economically and politically.

In June 2012, widespread violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine led to the displacement of 145,000 people. As decades-old ethnic conflicts drag on, the IRC has been responding to the ongoing needs of Myanmar’s most vulnerable.

2023 has been a turbulent year, and the IRC predicts humanitarian crises like Gaza and Sudan will worsen in 2024. But while the headlines worldwide may be dire, there are still many positive stories and uplifting moments from 2023 worth remembering.