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.

Financial Summary for the Financial Year 2016.

A political settlement to the ongoing conflict remains the only means to avert famine. In the meantime, the single greatest barrier to easing the suffering of Yemen’s people remains humanitarian access.

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.

Joint statement: NGOs call upon EU institutions and Member States to expand the use of safe and legal channels for refugees

Joint comments paper: European Commission proposal for a regulation establishing a Union Resettlement Framework

Saving lives and rescuing futures: recommendations for a humanitarian and sustainable Union Resettlement Framework

The Far North is one of Cameroon’s poorest regions and has long experienced chronic under- development resulting in poverty, limited access to basic services, high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition.

Humanitarian Response in the Lake Chad region

Niger NGOs call for fulfilment of commitments for Diffa