In Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, two women, Fatuma and Nurto, are best friends, supporting each other through difficult times.

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.

Four years ago, 21-year-old Alganesh had everything to look forward to. Newly married and having recently qualified with a diploma in management, she moved from the Ethiopian countryside to reunite with her husband in Soge, a town in the west of the country

This Mental Health Awareness Week it’s important that we don’t forget refugees and those who have had to flee their homes.

As dangerously cold weather grips Greece, the International Rescue Committee has been doing everything within our power to ensure that people staying in the refugee sites where we work are warm and safe. We are particularly concerned about children and the elderly, who are most at risk of hypothermia and worse if they don't have sufficient heat.

Across the world, hunger crises are disproportionately impacting children. Learn why children are especially vulnerable to famine and what the IRC is doing to help. 

On the tenth anniversary of the war in Syria, the International Rescue Committee spoke with 10-year-olds and their parents about growing up knowing nothing but war.