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Sudan
After more than a year of fighting, Sudan is experiencing the world's worst displacement crisis and one of the world’s worst hunger crises. Humanitarian needs have more than doubled, with nearly 25 million people in need of assistance.
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Women and girls
Women and girls—particularly in places affected by crisis—face discrimination, violence, and a lack of equal opportunities that threaten their lives and rob them of their potential. But with the right support and investment, they can change their own future and uplift entire communities. They can change the world.
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Crisis in Sudan: What is happening and how to help
For two consecutive years, Sudan tops the IRC’s Emergency Watchlist, a list of countries most likely to experience a new or worsening humanitarian crisis.
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- July 15, 2025
3 things you need to know about the Rohingya refugee crisis
The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic minority caught in the violence gripping Myanmar's Rakhine State. In less than a month, half a million people have fled to Bangladesh, making this the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis. And those who remain in camps in Rakhine live in dire conditions. Please watch, learn more and share this video. Additional video and photos courtesy of Human Rights Watch and Steve Gumaer.
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- October 24, 2017
The top 10 crises the world can’t ignore in 2024
Each year, the IRC lists the countries at greatest risk of worsening humanitarian crisis over the coming year.
- Article
- December 12, 2024
Famine in East Africa
By the time a famine is declared, it’s already too late – people are dying, paying the price of the world’s inaction.
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Millions of Afghans endure crisis three years after Taliban takeover
Three years after Afghanistan’s change of government, millions across the country are enduring a humanitarian crisis. This is what the international community can do to help.
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- August 15, 2024
Rohingya refugee crisis: Violence displaces thousands in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Since June 2012, widespread violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. The majority are Muslims who call themselves Rohingya—the world’s largest stateless group and one of the most persecuted. The latest violence only makes the resolution of the world’s longest civil war all the more elusive.
- Article
- July 5, 2022
Rohingya crisis: trapped inside camps in Rakhine
Conflict is raging between Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim minority groups in Rakhine, one of Myanmar's poorest states. In 2012 many Muslims, including Rohingya, were attacked by their neighbours and forced into government camps as their villages were destroyed. The latest outbreak of violence on Aug. 25 pushed hundreds of thousands of Rohingya into neighbouring Bangladesh. That number could soon reach 1 million as the world’s fastest growing humanitarian crisis continues.
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- June 30, 2022
Technology & the Modern Refugee
The refugee crisis on European shores has opened our eyes to a global refugee crisis that is unprecedented in scale. More people have been forced to flee their homes by conflict and crisis than at any time since World War II.
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- July 5, 2022