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Global aid crisis: 13 countries most affected by international aid cuts
The global reduction in foreign aid budgets has created a humanitarian funding crisis at a time when needs are soaring. These 13 countries face the most severe consequences.
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- June 16, 2025
Honduras
A growing humanitarian crisis in Northern Central America continues to force thousands of people to displace in search for safety every year. Violence in Honduras is at levels akin to war zones. The International Rescue Committee serves individuals and families who are at risk of violence and displacement in Honduras with programming to satisfy their most urgent needs as well as working with communities and families to mitigate and prevent violence.
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Kenya
The International Rescue Committee in Kenya aims to deliver innovative, result-oriented humanitarian and development programming to refugees and vulnerable Kenyans through direct intervention, partnerships and system strengthening programs to achieve sustainable change.
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Bangladesh
Nearly 1 million Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State to Cox’s Bazar, a district in Bangladesh. The IRC is responding with health care, protection for vulnerable women and children, and emergency support for the refugees.
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Peru
The International Rescue Committee is on the ground in Peru providing support to Venezuelans as they try to rebuild their lives as well as members of host communities also in need.
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Five places bearing the brunt of the climate crisis
Countries contributing least to climate change are hardest hit by the climate crisis.
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- September 27, 2023
Volunteer Spotlight - Nancy Joseph-Gould: Moving Mountains to Support Children and Families
Meet Nancy Joseph-Gould, who has worked to solve problems for refugees since she started volunteering in 2016 at the Denver office of the International Rescue Committee. From creating summer camp opportunities for refugee children to helping families register their children for school and obtain the services and supports they need to succeed and so much more, she has demonstrated that one person can truly improve the lives of people in need.
- Announcement
- November 13, 2024
How to help refugees
This World Refugee Day, we examine the pressing challenges that refugees face around the world and consider how we can address them.
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- June 17, 2024
Five ways the fight against COVID-19 goes beyond health care
Refugees and people experiencing crisis have been hit especially hard by COVID-19. Go inside the IRC’s innovative, lifesaving responses to the global pandemic.
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- June 27, 2022
How the Trump Administration is using COVID-19 to end asylum
As the Trump Administration uses the pretext of the coronavirus pandemic to intensify its years-long attack on asylum seekers, allegations are coming out about hysterectomies performed on women detained at an ICE facility.
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- September 16, 2020