Three things to watch for that would make a difference for asylum seekers at the border, and others seeking safety from war and violence.

In June 2015, International Rescue Committee president David Miliband visited Nigerian refugees in Niger, where more than 150,000 have found safety after fleeing ongoing violence in their country. 

Amen Koutowogbe joined the team at the International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City as an intern in 2020, connected by One Refugee.

Every year, millions of people become victims of human trafficking. Here in Northern California, the IRC offers support to survivors and resources to overcome labor and sex trafficking.

From now until December 31 the IRC in Boise is accepting donations of gently used winter clothing for newly arrived refugee families.

A compound crisis of armed conflict and climate change is driving unprecedented levels of humanitarian need, displacement and food insecurity in the Central Sahel: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. But these impacts are distributed neither equally nor randomly across the region. This report examines how political decisions dating from the French colonial rule through the early 2000s have marginalized peripheral areas of the Central Sahel states both economically and politically.