Thousands of refugees escaping violence and persecution travel along the Central Mediterranean Route – from sub-Saharan Africa, through Niger to Libya and some on to Europe. These asylum seekers face the dangers of the world's harshest extreme environments: the sea and the desert.

Young men, trying to escape from militia, have been gunned down in Bani Walid, Libya, about 180 miles from Tripoli. Could the IRC assist? The only answer is yes.

After fleeing South Sudan to Uganda, Grace Awate is now a leader in her community, acting as the head of her village’s IRC-supported women and girls’ center where she helps empower women to become financially independent.

Since 2014, economic upheaval and political turmoil in Venezuela have caused over 3 million people to flee the country, and this number is likely to rise as the crisis intensifies.

Kidnapped by traffickers in Honduras at age 14, Suamhirs survived the ordeal only to find himself held captive by U.S. immigration authorities. Now a U.S. citizen working with the IRC, Suamhirs tells his harrowing story—in order, as he says, “to inspire you to help.”

Ethiopian refugee Tefere Gebre was just 15 years old when he arrived in the United States—starting over in a new world alone, without any family by his side. Over 30 years later, he is executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, the largest labor union in the world.

A new outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is threatening to become the most difficult to contain in the history of the region.

Fighting in northwest Syria, including Idlib, has uprooted nearly a million Syrians—triggering the largest displacement in the country’s nine-year-old war.

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.

Even as she packed up her IRC office in Kansas in the wake of the Trump administration's deep cuts to refugee admissions, Amy Longa made sure a young Rohingya man could get the surgery he needed.