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A mother sits holds her baby at an IRC health clinic in Somalia

Crisis in Somalia: Aid workers hampered as needs rise

Here are five reasons the IRC's Watchlist ranks Somalia among countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2022.

ArticleJanuary 4, 2022
A mother brings her baby to an IRC health clinic in Yemen

"We just want peace": an aid worker's hopes and fears for Yemen

Caught up in a brutal war since 2015, Yemen is on the brink of famine. An IRC nutrition manager in Yemen who is expecting her first child talks about her fears for the future and the hope she derives from her team's work.

ArticleOctober 23, 2018
Young children outside surround a small garden in a settlement for migrant workers.

Thailand

For more than three decades, refugees from Myanmar have sought safe haven in neighboring Thailand. The International Rescue Committee is aiding more than 100,000 refugees in nine camps along the border.
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A Tigrayan boy named Hafton stands smiling with his mother Wahid and his best friend Mherka outside a grass-walled shelter in a refugee camp in eastern Sudan.

Sudan

The IRC is scaling up aid in Sudan where extreme weather events, locust infestations, rising food costs, COVID-19, and other factors are driving increased humanitarian need.
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A mother and her two young children seated outdoors in Yemen

Yemen

Plagued by war, poverty, malnutrition and cholera, Yemen is facing one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time. Now its health system is under the strain of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, many of which are going untested and undetected.
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An IRC health worker holds a crying baby, giving him a medical checkup in a village in Central African Republic as his mother looks on smiling.

Better aid

The world’s 82 million displaced people, the highest number ever recorded, require more than “aid as usual.” Their growing and increasingly complex needs mandate a transformation—a creative rethinking—in the global humanitarian response.
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Refugee crisis

There are now more than 82 million refugees and displaced people around the world. The International Rescue Committee is providing relief to millions in war zones and other countries in crisis; in Europe, where refugees continue to seek safety; and in our 20+ resettlement offices in the United States.
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An IRC paramedic checks the temperature of a woman in Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh

Coronavirus response

As the coronavirus continues to spread globally, people living in crisis will be hit hardest. The International Rescue Committee is scaling up our response to the pandemic.
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Two women and a man who arrived in the U.S. as refugees sit wearing winter coats and hats near an American flag

Refugees in America

The United States has a long tradition of welcoming refugees fleeing persecution and conflict. Learn how the IRC helps refugees in the U.S. and how you can too.
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"Sadness, we are full of sadness": Ebola's psychosocial toll on frontline health workers

Health care workers were at high risk of infection during the Ebola epidemic. They suffered physically, but also socially and emotionally. For many, these consequences remain unaddressed.

ReportJune 30, 2016

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