World-renowned musician Femi Kuti recently traveled to northeastern Nigeria to meet with people displaced from areas ravaged for years by Boko Haram and see the International Rescue Committee's crisis response in action.

Escalated violence in their native Burundi forced them to flee. For pregnant women, the increased uncertainty for the future is all the more stressful.

For International Women's Day, the IRC asked girls in Helowyn camp in Ethiopia to describe what it means “to be a girl.”

Contraception is a cost-effective and efficient way to prevent deaths from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications, as well as health problems related to unintended pregnancies. Five women living as refugees explain why access to contraception is important to them.