Central American families have the legal right to seek asylum—but have limited to no guidance regarding the asylum process. The IRC and its partners in Arizona are providing emergency support to asylum-seeking families.

Stretching into its eighth year, the Rohingya Crisis continues to demand global attention. In 2024, the IRC continued to deliver vital humanitarian support - including through vital advocacy efforts - to more than 400,000 people across Cox's Bazar, Khulna and Barisal. Programmes included health, protection, education, livelihoods and disaster preparedness.

In 1940 young journalist Varian Fry began a daring mission to help Jewish refugees and some of the Nazi’s most-wanted escape the Holocaust.

This summer, the IRC in Richmond's youth team led a season full of learning, connection, and empowerment for refugee and immigrant youth. From after school programs and college visits to summer camps and new initiatives, youth of all ages had opportunities to grow socially, emotionally, and academically. These efforts reflect the IRC’s ongoing commitment to supporting young people as they build brighter futures in their new home.

Support the IRC in Denver this year on Colorado Gives Day, December 7, 2021!

IRC Virginia has long sought and valued feedback about our services. Now, our new Client Voice Initiative (CVI) takes this commitment one important step further: The program strives to ensure that our refugee families have a voice in developing the resettlement support that they need.

The IRC is working to implement this social recovery project per the World's Bank's Environmental and Social Standards.

On August 24, the IRC in Atlanta held a high school graduation ceremony to honor 20 hard-working students in our Connect 2 Success (C2S) program—one of the only programs in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to supporting out-of-school refugee youth ages 16 to 24 to pursue their education and career goals.

The policy brief titled 'Bridging the Early Childhood Development Gap' outlines a collaborative initiative by the Jordanian Ministry of Health and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to bridge the early childhood development gap in Jordan, emphasizing the importance of responsive caregiving for children's holistic growth. Through the Ahlan Simsim program, the effort targets enhancing healthcare workers' abilities to support children aged 0 to 5 and their caregivers, with a special focus on communities in need, including refugees.