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7 people who have stood with refugees: then and now

This World Refugee Day, we are reaching back in history and taking inspiration from seven extraordinary individuals, among many over the years, who have stood with refugees. They have shown that progress is possible, even when the odds can feel too great to overcome.

ArticleJune 19, 2018
Elie Wiesel in 2007

Remembering IRC Overseer Elie Wiesel

The International Rescue Committee is deeply saddened by the loss of longtime IRC Overseer Elie Wiesel, who died Saturday at his home in New York. He was 87.

ArticleJuly 3, 2016
A little girl in a winter coat and hat leans on an adult woman as other adult women stand around her.

Notes from Poland in a time of crisis

The IRC’s Nancy Dent describes her experiences confronting the largest European refugee crisis since World War II.

ArticleApril 4, 2022
Omar, a 10-year-old Syrian boy, looks at himself in a mirror in his family's tent.

Crisis in Syria: Economic crisis compounds over a decade of war

Here are four reasons the IRC’s Emergency Watchlist ranks Syria at number nine among 20 countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2022.

ArticleMarch 15, 2022
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Albert Einstein and the birth of the International Rescue Committee

Learn how the International Rescue Committee was founded at the call of physicist, humanitarian -- and refugee -- Albert Einstein.

ArticleJune 20, 2017

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