The IRC’s 2022 Watchlist of countries at risk of deepening humanitarian crisis reveals a world in which the systems set up to prevent human suffering are broken.

68.5 million people are uprooted by violence and persecution. In these stories, IRC experts answer your questions about the year's humanitarian headlines.

Only days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed a swath of the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the International Rescue Committee dispatched an emergency team of relief experts to Louisiana. For the first time in its 73-year history, the organization responded to a humanitarian crisis in the United States. 

Violence, climate change, rising poverty and COVID-19 are forcing thousands of people from Haiti, northern Central America and other places to flee their homes.

The IRC is providing immediate cash and economic assistance and psychological first aid to people impacted and displaced by the explosion in Beirut.