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An Ebola survivor in Congo receives mental health support from International Rescue Committee staff member seated across from her.

Mental health

The IRC works to ensure that people can receive care and manage treatment for themselves and their families, from the earliest stages of a mental health crisis through recovery.
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An IRC health worker holds a crying baby, giving him a medical checkup in a village in Central African Republic as his mother looks on smiling.

Better aid

The world’s 82 million displaced people, the highest number ever recorded, require more than “aid as usual.” Their growing and increasingly complex needs mandate a transformation—a creative rethinking—in the global humanitarian response.
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Two women and a man who arrived in the U.S. as refugees sit wearing winter coats and hats near an American flag

Refugees in America

The United States has a long tradition of welcoming refugees fleeing persecution and conflict. Learn how the IRC helps refugees in the U.S. and how you can too.
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Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister on Game of Thrones, talks with Afghan refugee Rehanna, age 27, holding her hands

Game of Thrones and the IRC

Across the globe, record millions of people are being forced by violent conflict to flee their homes. These refugee families—children, women and men—are struggling to survive and recover. The International Rescue Committee and HBO's "Game of Thrones" have been working together to bring attention to the global refugee crisis.
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Cash relief

Cash relief is one of the most efficient and effective forms of aid for thousands of uprooted people struggling to survive in times of crisis.
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A health workers uses a scanner to screen a woman and baby for signs of Ebola

Ebola

The International Rescue Committee has been responding to outbreaks of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We also responded In 2014, as West Africa experienced the largest ever outbreak of Ebola, which claimed over 11,000 lives.
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A Rohingya woman iholds her sleeping child

Rohingya refugees: The world’s fastest-growing humanitarian crisis by the numbers

International Rescue Committee aid workers are scaling up our response to the world's fastest-growing humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of people are uprooted by violence in Myanmar. Here's a look at the Rohingya refugee crisis by the numbers.

ArticleOctober 23, 2017

Humanitarian action in an urban world: the IRC's role in improving urban crisis response

Urban settings require different approaches to delivering assistance and supporting populations compared to rural areas or refugee camps.

ResourceAugust 24, 2016

Trump’s Yemen veto is a green light for world’s worst humanitarian crisis to continue

StatementApril 16, 2019
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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