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Crisis in Myanmar: Violent deadlock leaves millions in need
Myanmar returns to the IRC’s crisis Watchlist after the military seized power in February 2021, leading to unrest and conflict throughout the country.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Strategy100: Empowering people in crisis and beyond
Since the International Rescue Committee (IRC) was first founded at the request of Albert Einstein in 1933, our global team of more than 17,000 staff have helped people upended by conflict and crisis to survive, recover, and regain control of their lives. Today we work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S.
- About the IRC
Rohingya refugee crisis: Violence displaces thousands in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Since June 2012, widespread violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. The majority are Muslims who call themselves Rohingya—the world’s largest stateless group and one of the most persecuted.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
IRC Commitments at the Generation Equality Forum
The Generation Equality Forum can and should drive progress towards gender equality in humanitarian contexts. IRC has called for the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) to be purposefully inclusive of achieving gender equality in humanitarian contexts.
- Report
- July 1, 2021
New IRC study in Mexico finds xenophobia and misinformation block access to jobs for asylum seekers
- Press Release
- May 1, 2022
“Uprooted”: Putting a face on the staggering refugee numbers
Right now some 60 million people around the world are living in limbo, having been forced to flee their homes by war, conflict and persecution. That's more lives uprooted than at any time since World War II.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Myanmar: Dire Conditions Demand Action
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
David Miliband: The refugee crisis is a test of our character
Sixty-five million people were displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster in 2016. That's 24 people every minute. It's not just a crisis; it's a test of who we are and what we stand for, says David Miliband — and each of us has a personal responsibility to help solve it. In this TED talk, Miliband gives us specific, tangible ways to help refugees and turn empathy and altruism into action.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Coming to America: the reality of resettlement
“The vetting is so extreme, there is no room to lie—you will get caught,” say Azzam and Nisreen Tlas, Syrians resettled in San Diego who have experienced the three-year process.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
David Miliband on the 2023 Emergency Watchlist Report, at the Scandinavia House
- Remarks
- December 15, 2022