The Generation Equality Forum can and should drive progress towards gender equality in humanitarian contexts. IRC has called for the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) to be purposefully inclusive of achieving gender equality in humanitarian contexts.

Child Health at the International Rescue Committee

With Santa Clara County seeing a continued upward trend in daily positivity rates for COVID-19, IRC San Jose has remained in full-remote work since mid-March. As we delved deeper into the summer of 2020, this reality made us question the future of Vision 2.0: Summer Job Academy (hereinafter referred to as Vision). Vision is an immigrant-female empowerment workshop aimed at allowing participants to learn about different career paths, to reflect on their personal goals, and to work towards envisioning themselves achieving their goals. Read further to see how we navigated the barriers posed by COVID-19 to still offer this workshop this summer!

Without urgent aid, a food crisis may leave up to 2.5 million people at risk of starvation in northeastern Nigeria.

George Rupp will step down at the end of August after 11 years as president of the IRC. In a recent interview with the IRC’s publications director Steven Manning, Rupp reflected on his tenure.

Learn the meaning of famine, what causes it, and how we can prevent future famines through early action and humanitarian aid.