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Follow a mobile health team treating children in Yemen's remotest villages
IRC mobile health teams in war-torn Yemen are delivering lifesaving medical services to people living in remote mountainous regions. Follow one team on its weekly journey to the village of Mosuk to treat malnourished children, many suffering from cholera.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Safe Healing and Learning Spaces Toolkit
A Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) is a secure, caring and predictable place where children and adolescents living in conflict and crisis settings can learn, develop and be protected. The SHLS Toolkit provides child protection and education practitioners with all of the content needed to initiate an SHLS program.
- Resource
- August 18, 2016
What ‘back to school’ looks like for kids in crisis around the world
This week, many kids in the United States return to class for the start of a new school year. But for the millions of children around the world facing conflict and crisis, lessons this year look very different.
- Article
- September 3, 2025
Mia Farrow: Eyewitness to a better way to treat malnutrition
Actress Mia Farrow recently visited IRC nutrition programs in Chad, where conflict and climate change are making it hard for families to get enough food.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
The refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East: Our response
The civil war in Syria—now in its sixth year—has created the worst humanitarian crisis of our time and in tandem with other brutal conflicts has sparked the largest global displacement of people in recorded history. Join our response.
- Resource
- August 23, 2016
Yazidi refugees: A desperate struggle
Since early June, tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled Islamic State militants who have targeted religious minorities in a violent rampage across northwestern Iraq. Thousands remain in need of food, water, shelter and safety. Last month, the militants attacked one of Iraq’s oldest minorities, the Yazidi people of Sinjar.
- Video
- April 13, 2022
Five years on, a displaced Iraqi woman rebuilds her life
Five years after the defeat of the ISIS group, millions of Iraqis lack livelihood opportunities, proper shelter, or access to basic services. Women like Sarah have demonstrated great courage in the face of conflict and displacement to provide for their families.
- Article
- December 16, 2022
A review of context analysis tools for urban humanitarian response
This desk review aims to provide an audit and analysis of existing context analysis tools along the themes of governance and power analysis; vulnerability, social and conflict analysis; and urban systems analysis.
- Resource
- December 6, 2016
Niger: Civilians caught in the crossfire and left behind
- Press Release
- June 27, 2022
Our goals for safety
The IRC helps those who are recovering from conflict and disaster seek protection from harm, build safer communities, and understand their human rights.
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