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Pakistan

The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to Pakistanis who are struggling to recover from the effects of ongoing natural disasters and poverty.
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Nigeria

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides vital support to Nigerians enduring conflict, natural disasters and poverty.
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Real world impacts of cutting poverty-focused and humanitarian foreign assistance

The IRC and other leading aid agencies strongly urge Congress to reject the President’s foreign affairs budget request and maintain current funding of $60 billion for the International Affairs budget.

IRC DocumentJune 15, 2017

Shifting social norms: a gender analysis of time poverty, paid work and masculinity in Jordan

In 2018, the IRC assisted over 120,000 Syrian refugees and low-income Jordanians to access healthcare, protection, education and income generation opportunities. One of the recent changes that IRC staff have noticed is that Syrian women are taking on more of an income earning role than was the norm back in Syria and that this is creating changes in household dynamics.

ReportNovember 26, 2019

Six months on from change in power, IRC warns starvation could kill more Afghans than last twenty years of war as 97 per cent of population faces poverty

Press ReleaseFebruary 15, 2022

Our future under fire

The International Rescue Committee has partnered with Richard Curtis—renowned filmmaker and advocate for the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations—to produce a short film that explains how world leaders can turn the tables on extreme poverty, injustice and

VideoSeptember 28, 2018

Foreign Affairs: A battle plan for the World Bank

In "A Battle Plan for the World Bank," a piece published in Foreign Affairs, IRC president and CEO David Miliband explains why refugees are at the center of the fight against poverty.

ResourceFebruary 25, 2019
A Syrian girl in Dana, Idlib

A look into the mental health crisis in Syria

Thousands of people in Idlib, Syria, are living in dire conditions under constant threat of airstrikes. A Syrian health worker describes the trauma they are experiencing.

ArticleOctober 9, 2018

Lights out in Syria

As the war in Syria hits its 4­year mark on March 15, humanitarian needs have never been greater. Satellite images show that 83 percent of the lights have gone out in Syria since the conflict began, plunging streets, homes and hospitals into darkness.

VideoMarch 15, 2015

Families, financial volatility and COVID-19

Low-income families struggle with financial volatility in their daily lives.  During COVID-19, these struggles have been amplified. 

ReportSeptember 15, 2020

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