The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is extremely concerned about escalating tensions and hostilities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where many refugees, displaced families, and local communities are reeling from a year of multiple humanitarian disasters.

In the face of ongoing violence — and the anti-refugee agendas pushed by some politicians — resilient Syrians are enduring the unimaginable and generous communities are taking them in. Here are 10 moments from 2016 (in no particular order) that give us a glimpse of the best of humanity.

Razia is an activist bringing feminism to Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh.

In June 2015, International Rescue Committee president David Miliband visited Nigerian refugees in Niger, where more than 150,000 have found safety after fleeing ongoing violence in their country. 

Photographs of 31 men, women, girls and boys, united by stories of displacement and disjuncture, formed the basis of a moving exhibit hosted by the IRC at the Union Club, Soho. They represent the 45,000 refugees in Greece who are preparing for plummeting temperatures this winter as they wait for their asylum applications to be processed.

The International Rescue Committee’s Frankie Parrish shares photos from Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, where the IRC is working to reunite unaccompanied and separated children with their families. Many children have become separated from their parents in the chaos of fleeing their homes in the wake of violence in neighbouring Burundi.

In 2018, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) assisted over 120,000 Syrian refugees and low-income Jordanians to access healthcare, protection, education and income generation opportunities.

Ending the COVID-19 pandemic can only be achieved if vaccines are available in all countries to everyone, including refugees. Here's how we get there, and what the IRC is doing right now.

Addressing the unique needs of children is an important part of the IRC’s work with local partners inside Ukraine and in Poland, where over 2.9 million refugees from Ukraine have found shelter. Go inside our response.