The sea and the desert are two of the most unforgiving environments for humans to survive. But thousands of people making the journey along the so-called Central Mediterranean Route are being left with no choice but to tackle the Earth’s harshest extremities.

The world is celebrating the extraordinary rescue of the Wild Boars football team from a flooded cave network in the Mai Sai district of Thailand, but the incident has also shined a spotlight on a humanitarian crisis on the Thailand-Myanmar border that has been overlooked since the start of military rule in Myanmar in the 1960s. Three of the boys, as well as their coach, 25-year-old Ekkapol Chantawong, belong to Thailand’s stateless population. “Coach Ek” and these boys have escaped from the treacherous caves, but remain trapped, as they have been all their lives, in a state of legal limbo.

1933 American branch of the European-based International Relief Association (IRA) founded at the suggestion of Albert Einstein to assist Germans suffering under Hitler. Refugees from Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain are later assisted.

Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The IRC has come to the aid of Afghans in need ever since. IRC president George Rupp reflected on the organisation's ongoing committment in this blog post from 2008.

When one of the strongest storms in recorded history slammed the Philippines in 2013, more than 6,000 people lost their lives and 90 percent of homes in the hardest hit areas were damaged or destroyed.

At four days old, he doesn’t yet have a name, or a birth certificate. The young Rohingya baby boy is embarking on a life already more challenging than most—born an unregistered refugee in the world’s biggest refugee camp.

The reality of life in Syria for children with disabilities is heartbreaking. We need solutions.

Paind Khan has big plans for his biryani - it's going to be the first dish he cooks for his wife when they're able to be reunited.

Swedish student Erin Ersson has gone viral after she refused to sit down on a plane that was due to deport an Afghan man from Sweden to Istanbul, and then to his country of origin. Erin filmed the whole situation live on Facebook and her video has now been viewed more than 4 million times, raising awareness about deportations of Afghans. Here’s what you need to know.

Since 2014, economic upheaval and political turmoil in Venezuela have caused 1.5 million people to flee the country, and this number is likely to rise as the crisis intensifies. Escaping devastating shortages, unemployment and soaring inflation, these refugees turn often to their country's closest neighbor, Colombia.