Famine has been declared in regions of South Sudan's Unity State, the world’s newest country which has been embroiled in conflict since its independence. Largely located in the northern regions of the country, the famine is affecting 100,000 people with a further one million at risk. Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen are also on the brink of famine as they struggle to respond to drought, rising food prices and a lack of food.

Nyaboth and Gatjang are just eight and 12 months old, but already they have a lot in common. Both were born in South Sudan, where conflict and drought has left 7.5 million people in need of food. Both have caring mothers who are desperate to protect their babies.

This Refugee Week and World Refugee Day, we are reaching back in history to tell the world: Now is the time to stand with refugees.

More than 1.5 million people have been displaced since the conflict in South Sudan reignited. According to the United Nations, 421,000 people have fled the new country to neighboring Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda. The International Rescue Committee is responding to the influx of new arrivals in the Kiryandongo refugee settlement in Uganda, where Dr. Catherine Ndekera, IRC’s health coordinator, reports on the situation.

An estimated 10,000 have been killed and over two million forced to flee their homes since civil war erupted in South Sudan on this day in 2013. Despite an — albeit fragile — peace deal signed in August 2015, intense fighting continues to flare up on a regular basis ever since.

On April 25 a powerful earthquake shook Nepal, killing more than 8,800 people and demolishing over 600,000 homes in one of the world's poorest nations. With their schools damaged or destroyed, more than a million students have been unable to return to class since the disaster struck.

Shanthini Sivakumar’s recipes, featured in the new cookbook The Kitchen Without Borders, bring the flavours of Sri Lanka to America.

To respond to the specific needs of adolescent girls in humanitarian settings and to address the gap in evidence of what works to promote the health, safety and empowerment of adolescent girls, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has invested in a robust adolescent girl programming and research agenda. As part of this effort, the IRC partnered with Columbia University over a three year period (2014–2017) to develop, implement and evaluate the Creating Opportunities through Mentoring, Parental Involvement and Safe Spaces (COMPASS) program, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). COMPASS was implemented with refugees living in camps on the Sudan/Ethiopia border, conflict-affected communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and displaced populations in north-west Pakistan.