Four reasons why Niger is at risk of experiencing a worsening humanitarian crisis in 2024.

Go inside an IRC clinic in Mogadishu that treats children for acute malnutrition and supports mothers facing the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

After losing her husband to the war in South Sudan, social worker Lilian Dawa fled with her two young children to Uganda, where she helps other refugee women as an IRC community volunteer.

Thirteen-year-old Helena was abducted by her uncle at gunpoint in impoverished South Sudan. He sold her to another man so he could pay for his own wife, following a practice known as the “bride price.”  

From major cities to remote villages, women and girls worldwide face harassment, violence, discrimination and a lack of equal opportunities. These are the toughest places to be a woman today, according to IRC experts.