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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

Through the IRC’s Vision not Victim programme, Nour, a Syrian refugee living in Jordan, was able to envision her future as a lawyer.