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Coronavirus by the numbers
These statistics remind us that the most vulnerable will be disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
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- May 27, 2020
A baby named Rescue: the miracle birth in beleaguered Yemen
An IRC mobile health team caring for uprooted families in a camp in Yemen was there at the right time to help a young mother through a difficult delivery.
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- June 27, 2022
Hunger crisis: How can G7 leaders help end famine?
The leaders at the G7 summit must act now on conflict, climate change and COVID-19 to end the growing hunger crisis. There has never been more at stake.
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- September 27, 2022
Afghans faced a year of crisis with resilience and generosity
Amid the crisis In Afghanistan, Afghans both inside the country and far from home are doing their best to endure–and ensure others have what they need to survive and rebuild.
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- June 27, 2022
Strategy100: Empowering people in crisis and beyond
Since the International Rescue Committee (IRC) was first founded at the request of Albert Einstein in 1933, our global team of more than 17,000 staff have helped people upended by conflict and crisis to survive, recover, and regain control of their lives. Today we work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S.
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“We’ve been buried alive:” Inside Eastern Ghouta’s underground bunkers
Thousands of Syrian families were living in basements and underground shelters in Douma, Eastern Ghouta to hide from the horror raining down on them. Hear from one family how they’ve survived.
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- June 27, 2022
“As a father, I can say that what is happening in Yemen really hits my heart”
IRC aid worker in Yemen writes about the heavy toll the two-year war has taken on an entire country, and on the humanitarian agencies struggling to reach those on the brink of starvation.
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- June 27, 2022
Young, pregnant and running from ISIS
After fleeing ISIS in Iraq, a young woman starts over in a refugee camp in Syria—with her infant son. They are among the almost 17,000 people, mostly Iraqis, living in Al Hol camp.
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- June 27, 2022
Rohingya refugee crisis: Violence displaces thousands in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Since June 2012, widespread violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. The majority are Muslims who call themselves Rohingya—the world’s largest stateless group and one of the most persecuted.
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- June 27, 2022
Life in limbo: empowering Iraqis displaced by ISIS
The IRC is training Iraqis who were forced from their homes by ISIS as community representatives who can advocate for the needs of their neighbors in the camps where they've been displaced.
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- June 27, 2022