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The story of 13‐year‐old Zain Younus, originally from Pakistan and now a student at the International Rescue Committee’s Refugee Youth Summer Academy.
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The CRC came into existence in 1989. Despite the global support for this convention to be ratified, children’s’ protection and other rights are far from a reality for millions of children around the world.
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.
The IRC’s ‘Hope’ Clinic in Jordan provides critical treatment for uprooted Syrians like Hisham, a 7-year-old refugee battling diabetes.
Yasser and his mother Jumana describe how playing the buzuq—a string instrument similar to a lute—helps him cope with life in a camp for people internally displaced in northeast Syria.
When war engulfed Syria, Mahmoud dodged bullets and bombs every day just to continue his education. Now the 13-year-old refugee has become one of the top students in his new school in Lebanon.
The IRC approach to programmatic decision-making involves bringing together research evidence, including empirical data; practitioner experience; contextual information from the environments in which we operate; and the needs, aspirations, and desires of our clients.
For Afghan refugee Mohammed Omadi and his family, who live in a refugee camp in a suburb of Athens, cash relief is a small step toward regaining control of their lives.
