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How are children and their education affected by crisis?
More than 224 million school-aged children are affected by crises globally. Find out more.
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- January 22, 2024
How the IRC helps in Afghanistan
Our work in Afghanistan, which has from the start spanned “the arc of crisis” from conflict to resettlement, has never been more urgent and crucial.
- Article
- June 22, 2022
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Teaser
In these extraordinary times, the world needs courageous leadership. That is what the International Rescue Committee was founded to provide. Our first employee, Varian Fry, issued fake passports from a safe house in Nazi-occupied Marseille to help people escape persecution during WWII.
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- April 13, 2022
Leaving No One Behind: Refugee Inclusion in the World Bank’s Response to Covid-19
This policy brief offers five key actions the World Bank and its shareholders should take so that adequate and appropriate support reaches people caught in crisis, including refugees.
- Report
- June 2, 2020
South Sudan: Voices from the famine
Conflict and drought have brought millions of people in East Africa to the brink of starvation in what is shaping up to be the most severe humanitarian crisis of our time.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
How to help refugees
This World Refugee Day, we examine the pressing challenges that refugees face around the world and consider how we can address them.
- Article
- June 17, 2024
Millions of Afghans endure crisis three years after Taliban takeover
Three years after Afghanistan’s change of government, millions across the country are enduring a humanitarian crisis. This is what the international community can do to help.
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- August 30, 2024
Who decides how many refugees come to the US?
The U.S. refugee cap limits the number of refugees who can be resettled each year, reflecting the U.S.'s commitment to providing safe haven to the world’s most vulnerable. Learn more.
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- October 18, 2024
Crisis news in 60 seconds: Oct 2018
This month, the International Rescue Committee's crisis news roundup looks at record-low refugee admissions in the U.S., the thousands of people fleeing Venezuela, and the difficulties stopping the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic Congo.
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- June 27, 2022
Crisis news in 60 seconds: August 2019
This month, the International Rescue Committee's crisis news roundup looks at the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Trump administration's asylum agreement with Guatemala and Colombia's recent pro-refugee measure to grant citizenship to Venezuelan children born in the country.
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- April 13, 2022