Actress and activist Piper Perabo reflects on her visit to the Greek island of Lesbos where the IRC is providing critical aid for refugees fleeing from war-torn countries.

Every day, thousands of Venezuelans leave their country in search of safety and stability. Here is what you need to know about the unfolding crisis.

Game of Thrones star -- and new IRC Voice -- Lena Headey traveled to Germany with the IRC where she was reunited with Marwa, a Syrian refugee she met on the Greek island of Lesbos almost two years ago.

All of us at the IRC would like to thank our supporters for helping refugees around the world. Watch our special video.

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.

In the 1600s, a group of writers collaborated on a historical play called Sir Thomas More. The script included one of the earliest and most impassioned defenses of a compassionate refugee policy, an extract known as The Strangers’ Case, widely believed to be written by William Shakespeare.