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Labour market integration for vulnerable populations
According to the National Strategy on Integration, there are over 650,000 third country nationals in Greece, including refugees and asylum seekers. Without Greek language skills, they are at a disadvantage in navigating the labour market. Women and youth are especially vulnerable and have particular challenges in finding employment.
- Resource
- August 6, 2019
Ethiopia
The International Rescue Committee provides a wide range of assistance for refugees, displaced persons and vulnerable Ethiopian communities as the country faces conflict, regional instability, climate change and food insecurity as a lingering effect of subsequent droughts.
- Country
Star Boot Sale
Raising funds for our vital work with Syrian refugees, the Star Boot Sale has got off to a flying start! The auction is live and will run up until 9pm on Sunday the 6th December.
- Slideshow
- June 30, 2022
Stand and Deliver
On 4 February 2016, the international community agreed on a ‘comprehensive new approach’ to address the protracted Syria crisis at the “Supporting Syria and the Region” Conference in London. Donors, and neighbouring countries, which host the vast majority of those who have fed Syria, committed to significant financial pledges and policy changes to improve the lives of refugees and host communities.
- Report
- January 24, 2017
What is The Strangers’ Case?
400 years ago a group of writers collaborated on a historical play called Sir Thomas More. The script included one of the earliest and most impassioned defences of a compassionate refugee policy, an extract known as The Strangers’ Case, widely believed to be written by William Shakespeare.
- Article
- June 30, 2022
How to make doughnuts from scratch
Did you know the doughnut machine was created by a resourceful refugee? As Bake Off returns to our screens, we take a look at a delicious recipe to make the dough.
- Article
- March 21, 2025
Mandy Patinkin: Witnessing welcome in Uganda
Fresh from filming the latest season of Showtime’s Homeland,actor and activist Mandy Patinkin traveled to Uganda this month with the International Rescue Committee to see what happens when refugees are given welcome. Along with his wife Kathryn and son Isaac he met resilient, resourceful people who are restarting their lives in a country that has made a choice to build bridges, not walls.
- Article
- July 5, 2022
IRC and LEGO Foundation bring learning through play to East Africa
In areas affected by conflict or disaster, children are likely to miss out on learning opportunities. The IRC and LEGO Foundation are responding by providing learning through play activities to 800,000 young refugees and host community children in East Africa.
- Topic
A mother opens her arms to Syria’s orphans
Jamalat Abd al-Raouf al-Hariri fled the war in Syria with her husband and children nearly two years ago. Since then, the family has been living in Zaatari, Jordan’s largest Syrian refugee camp.
- Article
- June 30, 2022
In search of safety
The Norwegian Refugee Council and the International Rescue Committee issued a scathing report outlining the recent humanitarian failures in Fallujah, Iraq as a direct consequence of the military operation to retake the city.
- Report
- July 19, 2016