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Healthcare Heroes: Former refugees fight COVID-19 in Georgia

Staffed and managed by members of Georgia's refugee community, the IRC-CORE COVID-19 mobile testing sites had an incredibly successful first month of operation in Clarkston, drastically increasing access to testing—and contact tracing—with capacity for interpretation in 20 languages. Meet some of our Healthcare Heroes.

AnnouncementSeptember 23, 2020
18-year-old Reema was resettled by the IRC in Baltimore

Refugees on the playing fields of America

As the 2016 Summer Olympics came to a close, refugee soccer players resettled in Baltimore reflected on their own dreams.

ArticleAugust 19, 2016

One Refugee interns boost IRC initiatives

Community partnerships create a path for refugees to come full circle and aid other refugees resettling in Utah.

AnnouncementMarch 19, 2021
A Mexican mother wearing pink pants and a purple shirt stands with her arms around her young daughter, who has a long braid, in a hallway. They are asylum seekers in an IRC welcome center.

Is it legal to cross the U.S. border to seek asylum?

People arriving at the U.S. border have the right to request asylum without being criminalized, turned back, or separated from their children. Here’s how the process works.

ArticleApril 1, 2022

Research, evaluation and learning at the International Rescue Committee

The IRC maintains a dedicated professional Research, Evaluation and Learning (REL) Technical Unit team to ensure that the organization is both outcomes driven and evidence based in its approach.

ResourceOctober 12, 2016

Environmental Health at the International Rescue Committee

In acute emergencies, the IRC establishes emergency water, sanitation and hygiene promotion programs, ensuring that life-saving services can be initiated efficiently. As countries evolve from emergencies to rebuilding, the IRC works to build stronger community and government oversight on improved water, hygiene and sanitation services, and maintenance of systems.

ResourceOctober 10, 2016

Sotheby's and Google join forces for major online charity auction of virtual experiences to benefit the International Rescue Committee

Press ReleaseApril 26, 2020
IRC health workers in PPE admit socially distanced patients wearing face masks to their clinic on the Venezuela/Colombia border.

What you wanted to know about COVID and crises in 2020—your questions answered

Read some of our most popular articles of 2020 to revisit the biggest stories related to COVID-19, refugees and humanitarian crises this year.

ArticleDecember 28, 2020
Satellite image of Hurrican Katrina making landfall in 2005

Hurricane Katrina

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. 

ArticleAugust 29, 2016
Fatima, a home visiting officer for the IRC in Mexico, holds a sign that says "welcome to Mexico" in English, Spanish and Dari. She is wearing a mask and an IRC vest.

How the IRC is helping resettle Afghans around the globe

The severity of the situation in Afghanistan brings renewed urgency to the world refugee crisis: The IRC is committed to resettling evacuees.

ArticleSeptember 16, 2021

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