From our programming on the ground to our high-level advocacy work, here are six ways the IRC is supporting women and girls around the world. 

After Musa's father was killed, he became the sole provider for his family and set up his own business to support them.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is honoured that Amanda Gorman, the young poet who stepped onto the world stage at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, has chosen to support our work through the debut of her new poem, “A New Day’s Lyric.”

Two month old Mamie Koiwo screwed up her face in surprise and let out a brief wail as a nurse in apple green scrubs administered the polio vaccine. In October, Mamie entered the world just twenty feet away in the delivery ward of the Konia Health Centre in Lofa county, northern Liberia. Only days earlier, the last Ebola case had been registered in the country in the largest outbreak ever recorded, leading to over 4800 confirmed deaths in Liberia alone.