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UK Aid Cuts Confirmed in FCDO Annual Accounts 2024 to 2025
- Press Release
- July 23, 2025
IRC Ambassadors
Artists, athletes and thought leaders from around the globe support the International Rescue Committee and its mission. We are honored to partner with a distinguished group of ambassadors committed to uplifting and championing our work of helping refugees and other people facing crises to survive, recover and take control of their lives.
- Together we are
Inside the IRC's 24/7 clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic
The first case of the coronavirus has reached the world's biggest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, home to nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees. The IRC's 24/7 clinic operates day and night and is ready to respond if the virus spreads. This video was funded by the European Union.
- Video
- June 23, 2022
20 humanitarian crises you may have missed this year
As the refugee crisis in Europe and ongoing Syrian war continue to dominate news headlines, many countries struggle with conflict and natural disaster largely out of sight—and largely on their own.
- Article
- June 30, 2022
The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop: rescuing children's futures
The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit, educational organisation behind Sesame Street — are working together to give millions of young refugees and other children in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and northern Iraq whose lives have been affected by war the support they need to learn, grow and thrive.
- Article
- July 6, 2022
Conditions inside Rakhine for Rohingya are increasingly grim
Rohingya refugees are risking their lives for a safe place to call home. 60 people drowned on Sep. 29 when a boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing from violence in Myanmar sank off the coast of Bangladesh.
- Article
- June 30, 2022
What a world without welcome would mean for the arts
Sir Anish Kapoor and President & CEO of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband come together at Tate Modern to celebrate the contribution of artists who have fled their homes to the arts. When we welcome refugees they shape our world for the better. Join our global call to welcome. Sign our open letter to refugees.
- Video
- July 6, 2022
Mandy Patinkin and Grover talk about the importance of education
Together Sesame Street's Grover and International Rescue Committee ambassador Mandy Patinkin are on a mission to help refugee children. Learn more about the IRC's partnership with Sesame Workshop to address the educational needs of young Syrian refugees in the Middle East.
- Video
- September 8, 2022
First COVID-19 case confirmed in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
The world’s largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh saw its first confirmed case of COVID-19, exposing already extremely vulnerable Rohingya refugees and local Bangladeshis to the deadly virus.
- Video
- June 23, 2022
Starting over in Afghanistan
Pressured to leave Pakistan, more than 600,000 refugees have already repatriated to Afghanistan, which remains in the grip of violence and poverty. Meet some of the returning Afghans the IRC is assisting—where the majority of returnees are arriving. Photos by Andrew Quilty.
- Slideshow
- June 30, 2022