The IRC has joined forces with the New Americans Campaign, to help legal permanent residents become American citizens.

When 60,000 unaccompanied children crossed the border into the United States from Central America in the summer of 2014, the IRC sought to find out why.

Some 60,000 unaccompanied children from Central America crossed the United States border last summer, many fleeing violence and seeking reunion with a parent. Read one girl’s story.

The IRC remembers the legacy of our Chairman Emeritus and longest-serving Board member.

On April 6 last year, Gloria Ibrahim, 29, and her family woke to the clatter of gunfire. They ran outside to find a cadre from Boko Haram, the radical Islamist militia that controls parts of northeastern Nigeria, rounding up villagers.

As drought and conflict once again push Somalia to the brink of famine, see how a baby whose story alerted the world to his country's suffering was rescued from starvation six years ago.

IRC President and CEO David Miliband delivered the commencement address to the 2015 graduating class of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in war-torn Yemen. Since air strikes targeting rebel positions started on March 26, widespread violence has killed more than 1,000 people and driven 300,000 from their homes.

As the refugee crisis in Europe and ongoing Syrian war continue to dominate news headlines, many countries struggle with conflict and natural disaster largely out of sight—and largely on their own.

The International Rescue Committee helps children who, like Anita and her brothers, have suffered from trauma in Congo’s conflict.