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.

Four young documentary filmmakers are attempting to shine a light on positive stories of resilience from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.

As Europe struggles to mitigate a humanitarian crisis, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has returned to the Balkans, launching operations in Serbia in support of local organisations providing relief to people seeking safety.

The much-anticipated Global Compact for Refugees (GCR), expected in late 2018, together with the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), promise to revitalize refugee response through a multi-stakeholder “whole of society” approach. At a time when the international community is grappling with fundamental questions such as the equitable sharing of responsibility for refugees, the views and opinions of citizens in East Africa are invaluable in charting new directions.

Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Northwestern Tanzania was established in 1996, when civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) forced people to flee their homes, often with little more than the clothes on their backs, and cross Lake Tanganyika into Tanzania. Today, more than 65,000 Congolese and Burundian refugees live in Nyarugusu, over half of whom are children.

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