Despite all of the Trump administration's efforts to slam the doors on refugees, ordinary citizens across the country have continued to welcome these courageous newcomers with open arms and help them rebuild their lives. 

Sixty-five million people are uprooted from home by crisis in 2017 -- more than at any time since the Second World War. The ten most popular articles we shared this year are about the global refugee crisis and ways to help.

Ethnic conflict is raging in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state. In 2012 many minority Muslims were attacked and their villages destroyed, forcing them to shelter in camps. Residents of one of these camps describe the discrimination and danger they still face.

The IRC and Sesame Workshop have won $100 million in the MacArthur 100andChange competition to deliver the largest transformative early learning program for more than nine million refugee children in the Middle East.

An Iraqi family exemplifies the true spirit of the season and celebrates with the help of the IRC. “It is great to be home for the holidays." says Linda Abid Younis, who lives in Telskof, a town north of Mosul that was retaken from ISIS.

Thousands of displaced Syrians have crowded into villages in central Idlib, where they shelter in makeshift tents or abandoned structures. The IRC is there, providing health care and emergency cash relief.

Unlike most two years olds, young Yakeen has spent most of her life living under ISIS in Mosul—a life vastly different from how her parents had imagined.

Game of Thrones star -- and new IRC Voice -- Lena Headey traveled to Germany with the IRC where she was reunited with Marwa, a Syrian refugee she met on the Greek island of Lesbos almost two years ago.

It is no exaggeration that the future of the United States as a home for refugees is now on the line. New IRC data shows there are even fewer refugee arrivals in the U.S. than expected.

Even when bombs dropped around them, these Syrian twin brothers bravely made the dangerous walk to school every day because, for them, education meant survival.