UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, and IRC, the International Rescue Committee, today issued a Roadmap for action to improve the situation of refugee and migrant children arriving and staying in Europe without their parents or care givers. The Roadmap highlights the need to identify children, register them through child-friendly procedures, and build a relationship of trust with them as early as possible. Ensuring that a well-trained guardian takes immediate responsibility for the child, engaging cultural mediators, and mobilizing members of host communities are critical measures that can help build a trusting relationship and protect children from smugglers, traffickers or family pressure.

IRC has been working in Cameroon since early 2016, and is now expanding operations further north into the Logone et Chari department in order to meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced people.

For 663 million people, nearly a tenth of the global population, access to clean water is still a luxury they don’t have. For many, conflict and war have destroyed the vital infrastructure needed to bring water to communities and refugee camps, whilst climate change and drought continue to place increasing strain on limited resources.

13-year old Zain from Karachi, Pakistan is a student in IRC’s Refugee Youth Summer Academy preparing for school in New York this fall.

Dr. Stacey Mearns and the IRC's team of health experts answer a few key questions about pandemics and how the coronavirus is impacting refugees and the IRC's work.

This A3 Poster has10 #SimpleActs suggested for educators, they are adaptable and can be used for KS1- 4.The theme for Refugee Week, Community as a Superpower, draws on the power of community to create inclusive, welcoming environments for people seeking sanctuary and safety.

Earlier this year the IRC in Greece hosted cooking workshops for refugee and local women living on the island of Lesvos. Some of the women who took part talked to us about their experience and shared the recipe of the dish they shared with the group. Dimitra shares her recipe for stuffed tomatoes. 

In recent weeks, the United States’ new immigration policy has separated thousands of immigrant and refugee children from their parents as families seek refuge from persecution or violence. Here’s what you need to know about the situation.

Theatre director and Syrian refugee Bashar* always dreamed of having creative control over his art and being able to express himself freely. Now, he puts on his own productions.