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Mandy Patinkin’s emotional reunion with a Syrian family in Germany
When he visited the Greek island of Lesbos, actor and IRC ambassador Mandy Patinkin bonded with a Syrian family living in a refugee camp. More than a year later, he returned to Europe with his wife, Kathryn Grody, to pay a visit to the family, who have started a new life in Germany.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Cash: better aid for refugees who have lost everything
"If the rescue boats hadn't found us, we all would have drowned," recalls Mohammed Omadi. Mohammed and his family, from Afghanistan, came face-to-face with death when forced to cross the sea to Greece to seek refuge in a safe country. Their cash, passports and luggage disappeared in the waves. Cash relief provides emergency financial assistance for families like the Omadis that have lost everything.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
What you need to know about refugees
More than half of the world's refugees are children under the age of 18 and three-quarters are women and children. Find out the real story of refugees fleeing war and persecution.
- Video
- April 13, 2022
New IRC report: More than 300,000 Rohingya refugee children need Internet access for remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
The Trump Administration sets new all-time low number for refugee admissions at 15,000 for fiscal year 2021
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
IRC: Trump Administration decision to reduce refugee admissions to the US to 18,000 represents a failure of American leadership and moral authority
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
Statement on the signing of the FY2020 Presidential Determination
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
IRC calls on the Biden Administration to sign an emergency refugee admissions goal for FY21
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
Mandy Patinkin: Witnessing the refugee crisis in Europe
Actor Mandy Patinkin is traveling in Europe with the IRC this week to see the refugee crisis firsthand, and meet brave and resilient people at various stages of their own journeys from harm to home. Follow his path - and theirs - from Greece to Serbia and Berlin.
- Article
- June 22, 2022
No Time to Lose: An Urgent Call for Access to Quality Education for Rohingya Children in Cox’s Bazar
In this report the International Rescue Committee (IRC) demonstrates how informal education programming in Cox’s Bazar is constrained by a number of major challenges: limited and short-term funding; low quality of teaching; programme restrictions and approval delays; infrastructural limitations; and low levels of enrolment and student retention – all challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak and response
- Report
- August 24, 2020