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Eternally displaced: Afghanistan’s escalating crisis
Since the 1970s, millions of Afghans have fled to Pakistan to escape ongoing violence and natural disaster. They’ve found safety, built families and restarted their lives. However, many are now being forced to return to an unstable country that is unable to support them.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee ahead of UNSC meeting on Syria
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
Policy brief: Impact of Syrian refugees on host communities
There is a growing body of research that evidences the vital role Syrian refugees’ play in stimulating host economies and even buffering host economies from some of the wider regional economic impacts of the Syrian war.
- Report
- January 1, 2016
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
Tanzania
The International Rescue Committee provides critical support to thousands of refugees living in Tanzania as a result of ongoing conflict in neighboring countries.
- Country
Lebanon
The IRC provides emergency and long-term support to people affected by compound crises across Lebanon, including recent hostilities across the country.
- Country
The image of a young boy reawakens the world to the most innocent victims of Syrian war: children
- Press Release
- June 27, 2022
As a car bomb in Afghanistan claims the lives of 30 civilians, IRC warns the US cannot afford to turn its back
- Press Release
- June 27, 2022
IRC reacts to start of Turkish military operations in northeast Syria - concerned for welfare of millions of civilians
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
David Miliband in The Guardian: The most vulnerable pay for Trump's 'manufactured crisis'
IRC chief says U.S. government ‘failing in its most basic responsibilities’ in its handling of border issues
- Resource
- April 10, 2019