As another caravan of Central American survivors of violence and abuse makes its way to the United States border, here’s what you need to know about the situation.  

Learn the difference between refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants—and how the IRC helps people forced to flee crisis and conflict.

Children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border as the result of a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy are at risk of toxic stress, which can have short- and long-term effects on their health, behavior and ability to learn. Here's what can be done to help.

President Trump’s recent Executive Order did not solve the family separation crisis. IRC humanitarian programs in some of the poorest places in the world tell us five things children and families need to survive and thrive that should be in place at the southern border.

Each year, more than 700,000 people become American citizens. Here’s how the process works.

The world is celebrating the extraordinary rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team from a flooded cave network in the Mai Sai district of Thailand, but the incident has also shined a spotlight on a humanitarian crisis on the Thailand-Myanmar border that has been overlooked since the start of military rule in Myanmar in the 1960s.

You probably know the story of Superman. Born on the dying planet Krypton, baby Kal-El was rocketed to Earth with moments to spare, and was found and raised by a couple in Kansas who named him Clark Kent ... and the rest is comic-book history. Read more about Superman the refugee and force for humanity.

At four days old, he doesn’t yet have a name, or a birth certificate. The young Rohingya boy is embarking on a life already more challenging than most—born an unregistered refugee in the world’s biggest refugee camp.

The Trump Administration recently terminated Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from several countries already in the U.S. What does that mean?

Thousands of refugees escaping violence and persecution travel along the Central Mediterranean Route – from sub-Saharan Africa, through Niger to Libya and some on to Europe. These asylum seekers face the dangers of the world's harshest extreme environments: the sea and the desert.