The Violence, Prevention and Response (VPR) unit implements programming that prevents violence against women, children, especially girls, and other vulnerable groups, and responds to it when it does occur.

Powerful earthquake worsens humanitarian crisis in the country

Children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border as the result of a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy are at risk of toxic stress, which can have short- and long-term effects on their health, behavior and ability to learn. Here's what can be done to help.

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