Engaging girls is important – to reduce their exposure to harm and to expand the vital role they can play in shaping their own lives and communities. This is the reason the International Rescue Committee brings together groups of girls to explore their power and potential and cultivate essential skills.

On Day of the Girl, the IRC has identified the most challenging places to grow up a girl.

The time immediately following a crisis, whether it be a peace process, rebuilding after a natural disaster or seeing a new government come into power, creates a window of opportunity to reimagine what the next phase of life can look like.

Children have borne a disproportionate burden of the hardships resulting from the Syrian conflict, now entering its fifth year without any sign of resolution. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has led the way in providing vital education services to 5,000 of these children in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and Akkar District.

At a women's centre in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Rohingya women share messages that they’d like to send to the community.

2023 has been a turbulent year, and the IRC predicts humanitarian crises like Gaza and Sudan will worsen in 2024. But while the headlines worldwide may be dire, there are still many positive stories and uplifting moments from 2023 worth remembering.