This year, Ramadan and Eid-al-Fitr are especially poignant for the Hussaini family in Salt Lake City, Utah

For children who have fled war, starting school in a new place with different languages and cultures is daunting. When refugee children are given the right support school can transform into a place where they can heal from some of the trauma they have faced.

Actor and activist Mandy Patinkin recently witnessed first­hand the refugee crisis engulfing Europe. Alongside International Rescue Committee aid workers in Greece, he met families who had fled Syria and other war­torn countries in hopes of finding a better life for their children in Europe. “Standing with them, I did not see strangers to be feared but the faces and stories of my own family.

Meet five inspirational women who have overcome adversity to break down barriers and forge their own paths forward.

Across the world, hunger crises are disproportionately impacting children. Learn why children are especially vulnerable to famine and what the IRC is doing to help. 

Meet the mums and babies supported by the IRC in some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

Here are five reasons the International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Watchlist ranks Ethiopia as the country, after Afghanistan, most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2022.

Seven facts that show the progress we’ve made since 1995—and the work that still needs to be done.