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How climate change is compounding conflict in Afghanistan
People living in lower-income countries are bearing the brunt of climate change—despite that they are least responsible for rising CO2 emissions. Afghanistan is a case in point.
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- June 27, 2022
The climate crisis is here: what it looks like in numbers
Emergency conditions associated with global warming and more extreme weather events hit countries already experiencing conflict and crisis the hardest.
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- June 27, 2022
After 11 years, Afghan brothers are reunited
More than a decade after he had been separated from his younger brother, Ali, Mehdi was about to greet him at the Frankfurt, Germany, airport.
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- June 27, 2022
What next for Afghanistan? A hunger crisis
We must act quickly to prevent famine in Afghanistan, where 3.1 million children are already at risk of acute malnutrition.
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- June 27, 2022
How celebrities supported refugees this year
Rami Malek, Mandy Patinkin, Sepideh Moafi and Piper Perabo are just some of the celebrities who took a stand for refugees and people facing crises this year.
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- November 19, 2021
After fleeing his home, a Syrian boy finds joy in music and art
Yasser and his mother Jumana describe how playing the buzuq—a string instrument similar to a lute—helps him cope with life in a camp for people internally displaced in northeast Syria.
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- June 22, 2022
Celebrating new life after a difficult pregnancy
Meet newborn Baby Bello, his parents—and the IRC midwife who delivered him.
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- June 22, 2022
International Rescue Committee—Hellas
English version Διεύθυνση: Αθανασίου Πατέστου 5, Μυτιλήνη, 81100, Λέσβος Email: Aggeliki.Kleioti@rescue.org Η IRC Hellas ξεκίνησε την δράση της στην Ελλάδα το 2015 στο νησί της Λέσβου, ανταποκρινόμενη στους πρωτοφανείς αριθμούς προσφύγων που έφταναν τότε στο νησί. Από την αρχή των προγραμμάτων στην Ελλάδα, η IRC έχει παράσχει υπηρεσίες υποστήριξης και προστασίας σε αιτούντες άσυλο και πρόσφυγες, τόσο σε ανοιχτά κέντρα φιλοξενίας (c
- Rescuing futures
Bio: IRC President and CEO David Miliband
David Miliband is the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He oversees the agency’s operations in over 40 crisis-effect countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout Europe and the Americas.
- IRC leadership
Remarks by Russell and Judith Carson, recipients of the 2020 John C. Whitehead Award
Judy and I were very honored to be chosen as the recipients of the John C.
- Rescue Dinner 2020