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.

"Game of Thrones" cast members Lena Headey, Liam Cunningham and Maisie Williams traveled to Greece with the IRC to hear the individual stories of refugees stranded in the country for months.

International music sensation Nico Sereba and Vincent Dery—Nico & Vinz— traveled to Ivory Coast to witness the IRC's work firsthand. With their strong West African roots, the Norway-based duo felt a personal commitment to raising awareness for this area of the world.

The IRC’s ‘Hope’ Clinic in Jordan provides critical treatment for uprooted Syrians like Hisham, a 7-year-old refugee battling diabetes.

Read about one family’s remarkable triumph over war, separation and illness.

On Aug 4, 1940, a young editor named Varian Fry boarded a transatlantic flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York on his way to German-occupied France to lead a daring rescue operation.

Meet a doctor, a refugee herself, who works with the IRC along the Thailand-Myanmar border providing essential care for 150,000 patients a year.

When the Soviet army crushed a Hungarian revolt in 1956, the IRC was among the first American aid organizations on the scene.

From 1960 to 1967, the IRC helped people fleeing Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Angola, Uganda, and Nigeria. After Castro's rise to power, it soon become one of the principal agencies helping Cubans to reach America

Armed with a new, global mandate, the IRC came to the aid of a continent struggling to transition to independence.