The International Rescue Committee is significantly scaling up our humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, where hunger and famine threaten people who have lived in the grip of Boko Haram terror over the past four years.

In 2015, the IRC, and partners, provided schooling and educational opportunities to more than 1.3 million girls and boys.

More than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border since early April as the result of a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. Families seeking refuge from persecution and violence in Central America have been ripped apart, with parents being sent to federal prison and their children being placed in government detention facilities.

In June 2015, the IRC selected one sub-county comprising three health facility catchment areas to pilot this ‘last mile’ strategy as a sub-set of the larger immunization project. The IRC introduced a smartphone application, or mHealth tool, using tailored CommCare software. The application developed a localized immunization information platform to allow facility-based health care workers to more easily identify and follow up those children that may have missed (or defaulted on) one or more of their vaccination.

In Yemen, COVID-19 is creating an unprecedented emergency within the world's largest humanitarian crisis. 

Ethiopia features on the International Rescue Committee's annual Emergency Watchlist for the third year in a row but rises into the top five for the first time due to escalating conflict. Here's what you need to know about the humanitarian emergency in Ethiopia.

All-women teams of medical doctors are braving long distances and treacherous terrain to bring health care to the remotest villages in Afghanistan.