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Gaza: The IRC warns of alarming gap in care for unaccompanied and separated children in Gaza
- Press Release
- August 16, 2024
Coronavirus by the numbers
These statistics remind us that the most vulnerable will be disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
- Article
- 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.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
From Lebanon to Ethiopia, humanitarians confront crises on top of COVID-19
On World Humanitarian Day, hear from IRC staff members working tirelessly to make a lasting impact.
- Article
- June 22, 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.
- About the IRC
Diabetes is manageable–unless you live in Syria
A health system broken by war leaves Syrians to cope with unchecked chronic disease. The IRC is filling a critical gap in care for Syrians like 65-year-old Miriam with diabetes, as well as those with heart disease, asthma and other chronic conditions.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
The IRC and Sesame Workshop bring education and hope to refugee children
The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop—the nonprofit, educational organization behind Sesame Street—are working together to give millions of refugee children in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and northern Iraq the support they need to learn, grow and thrive.
- Article
- September 8, 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.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Yemen, DRC, South Sudan at greatest risk of humanitarian crisis in 2019, warn IRC experts
- Press Release
- June 27, 2022
IRC Commitments at the Generation Equality Forum
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.
- Report
- July 1, 2021