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This teacher uses mindfulness to help children recover from war
Meet a teacher in Nigeria whose lessons aren’t just focused on reading and math. She also teaches her students to cope with living through conflict.
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- June 27, 2022
Game of Thrones and the IRC
Across the globe, record millions of people are being forced by violent conflict to flee their homes. These refugee families—children, women and men—are struggling to survive and recover. The International Rescue Committee and HBO's "Game of Thrones" have been working together to bring attention to the global refugee crisis.
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What does winter in Gaza look like?
Displaced by conflict and forced to live in makeshift shelters, many are without even the most basic essentials to keep warm or maintain their health. Learn more and see how the IRC is supporting people.
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- December 20, 2024
Choices, chances and safety in crisis: a model for women’s economic empowerment
Women are more likely to live in poorer households globally than men. Countries where this is evident are predominantly fragile or conflict-affected. In order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and ensure no one is left behind, women’s economic empowerment must be prioritized and resourced in crisis contexts.
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- February 1, 2019
Central African Republic
In Central African Republic (CAR), 1 million people have been displaced by ongoing conflict. The International Rescue Committee has assisted CAR throughout its current crisis despite the high risk to aid workers. We provide medical care, water and sanitation services, and protection for vulnerable women and girls.
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Anastasiia’s story: Life after fleeing Ukraine
Newly engaged and working amid the conflict and crisis at home, Ukrainian refugee Anastasiia tries to rebuild her life.
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- May 22, 2023
IRC and Relief International report reveals dire needs of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
The International Rescue Committee and Relief International carried out a multi-sector assessment to understand the urgent needs of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Only the second needs assessment of the Rohingya refugee crisis to be completed, it reveals the scale of the crisis faced by the estimated half a million people arriving in Bangladesh, fleeing conflict in Rakhine State.
- Report
- October 10, 2017
The will to learn: how education helps save young refugee lives
Life drastically changed for Dalal and the other young women after fleeing the conflict in Syria. They are among the 13.5 million people displaced by this devastating war, now in its eighth year.
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- June 27, 2022
Make a Planned Gift to the IRC
A planned giving bequest to the IRC through your estate plan will help ensure aid to people who have been uprooted from their homes by conflict and crisis well into the future.
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Watchlist Insight: Climate and Humanitarian Crisis in the Central Sahel
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.
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- June 5, 2023