Ambassador Samantha Power reflects upon being honored with the 2020 International Rescue Committee (IRC) Freedom Award. Read more about Ambassador Power and the IRC's Rescue Dinner 2020.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the IRC has been able to deliver school supplies to families and continue serving refugee students in our Ready to Read after-school program in Seattle. IRC tutors meet with students in an online classroom, assigning them books to read that correspond with their current reading level. Students who do not have computer or internet access receive printed copies of the same books.

IRC spokesperson and actor Zeeko Zaki caught up with IRC staff member and fellow Egyptian, Dina Elshenawy, to learn more about her work in IRC's partnership with World Central Kitchen. She has been helping provide food to vulnerable people in New York City, including refugees and at-risk families, since the COVID-19 pandemic started.

The IRC and World Central Kitchen, founded by Chef José Andrés, are working together to combat food insecurity in communities hardest hit by COVID-19 and its economic effects.

After years of war in Yemen forced Bodor Ali Muhammad Abdullah al-Jabri to flee her home along with her husband and two girls, she became pregnant with her third child. Living in a displacement camp, she worried whether the delivery would be safe.  Luckily, there was a solution. IRC teams in Yemen are providing lifesaving emergency aid, medical care, clean water, education, and women’s protection to millions in the country.

The Trump Administration has used the coronavirus to intensify its years-long attack on asylum seekers. New rules issued during the pandemic threaten to shut the door on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and could even lead to the deportation of health care workers in the United States. Learn more and find out how you can help. 

IRC president and CEO David Miliband on the IRC’s emergency response in Lebanon after the Beirut explosion, the challenges Syrian refugees in the country are facing, and the need for action from the global community

Malnutrition is an urgent crisis. Join Mia Farrow and the International Rescue Committee and help make an immediate impact on the lives of children worldwide.

The coronavirus struck at a time when more people around the world are displaced by war and crisis than ever before. They, along with people living in conflict zones, will be among the hardest hit by the pandemic.  We asked refugees and frontline International Rescue Committee staff what gives them hope as the world confronts COVID-19. Watch their moving responses. 

Despair and devastation ring loud in headlines defined by the hopelessness and loss felt by millions everywhere. The weight of those words is heavy, and the futures of many communities seem uncertain at best. But brave individuals are rewriting their story. Theirs is not a story of hopelessness and loss, but one of optimism and strength.