Meet a doctor, a refugee herself, who works with the IRC along the Thailand-Myanmar border providing essential care for 150,000 patients a year.

When the Soviet army crushed a Hungarian revolt in 1956, the IRC was among the first American aid organizations on the scene.

From 1960 to 1967, the IRC helped people fleeing Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Angola, Uganda, and Nigeria. After Castro's rise to power, it soon become one of the principal agencies helping Cubans to reach America

Armed with a new, global mandate, the IRC came to the aid of a continent struggling to transition to independence.

When millions fled Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia after the fall of Saigon, the IRC was there to help them start anew in the U.S.

For over a decade, the IRC provided food, water, and medicine to people trapped in a region enveloped in conflict.

An IRC-supported hospital in Dara'a, southern Syria, was hit by an airstrike on July 31 that killed six people and wounded many more.

The IRC recently spoke with people in the Central African Republic who felt they had no real participation in the country's peace process after years of war.

For the first time ever, a small team of international refugee athletes are competing at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this year — representing the some 65 million people displaced by war, conflict and persecution.

Only days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed a swath of the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the International Rescue Committee dispatched an emergency team of relief experts to Louisiana. For the first time in its 73-year history, the organization responded to a humanitarian crisis in the United States.