International Rescue Committee Annual Report 2017

The International Rescue Committee is significantly scaling up our humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, where hunger and famine threaten people who have lived in the grip of Boko Haram terror over the past four years.

First her family were used as human shields by ISIS. Then they were killed by a coalition airstrike.

Intense street battles are engulfing residential neighbourhoods as the Iraqi army fights to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, from ISIS.

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic dominated news headlines worldwide, 2020 emerged as one of the worst years on record for humanitarian crises. Test your knowledge, then learn more about 10 crises the International Rescue Committee (IRC) expects to significantly deteriorate over the course of 2021—and what can be done to help.

Learn about the world’s worst crises and what can be done to help.