The support of volunteers and partners, especially in 2022, has been remarkable! Take a look at a few highlights from successful partnerships in New Jersey!

Netflix’s Transatlantic is based on a historical fiction book that tells the story of Varian Fry and his team’s work evacuating refugees from Vichy France during World War II. Their legacy is a central part of the IRC’s foundation. Find out more about our origin story and the inspiration behind Transatlantic here.

People arriving at the U.S. southern border should have the legal right to request asylum without being turned back to danger.

Read an open letter signed by Piper Perabo, Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody, Morena Baccarin and many others calling on the president to rescind a proposed asylum ban.

In January of this year, International Rescue Committee, International Medical Corps, Terres des Hommes, Oxfam, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, hosted a technical panel to discuss the datafication of humanitarian work and how we can center data justice in future efforts. Data justice explores the relationship between datafication and social justice. It looks at the impacts of data-driven processes on different populations. A data justice lens in humanitarian settings, then looks at how humanitarian data initiatives typically affect local risk and resilience as well as oppression, equity, and shifts in power. Several themes came out of the panel attended by institutional donors and other practitioners, outlined in the report.

Earlier this month, was the first time in a few years that New Roots representatives from five IRC offices were able to convene, in person, in Arizona for a few days. In the Spring of 2020, the IRC was the subgrantee of a grant awarded by the Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED). This grant funded a three year project called, Beginning Farmer Rancher Development Program (BFRD).

A Day at the Tuberculosis clinic at the Community Day Centre in Tripoli, Libya.