The New American Dream Lab is a pitch competition sponsored by Comcast that engages refugee and new American business owners in workshops and pitch competitions. Three finalists walk away with additional business capital prizes to support their efforts. This year, WOSB Collective won the grand prize with its unique business idea!

Across 2022 and 2023, the IRC in Atlanta’s Immigration and Legal Services team, in partnership with the expert staff at Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network (GAIN) and many generous and dedicated volunteers, hosted 12 pro se legal clinics to assist Afghan humanitarian parolees to apply for asylum and/or Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

The war against Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terror group, has uprooted 14.8 million people in northeastern Nigeria who now face the threat of famine. The crisis is man-made, but the solutions are too. Unless the world pays attention, nothing will change.

Makia Adam arrived in the U.S. in 2015 and began working with IRC in Silver Spring in the summer of 2018 when she became a freshman in high school.

Eh Kaw Thaw recently graduated high school with honors. In the fifth installment of our Youth Voices series, she writes a letter to her younger self, a newly-resettled refugee in Dallas.

A set of recommendations from the IRC

One year after the massive explosion in Beirut, IRC staff member Elias El Beam describes how Lebanon has struggled to recover.

To better gauge Afghans’ hopes and fears regarding the future of the country, IRC researchers consulted 136 of the 650 Afghans who serve on our staff across the country. This report highlights their observations and outlines recommendations for international engagement in Afghanistan beyond 2014.

In the first of our 'Staff Spotlight Series', meet Rachel Tang, IRC-LA's Census Outreach Coordinator.